by Jordana Choucair | Sep 22, 2021 | Life Sciences
The Biden administration is buying 187 million rapid COVID-19 tests from Abbott Laboratories and Celltrion Inc. for $1.2 billion. According to an HHS official, the deals also include options for the federal government to buy more tests. Demand for rapid tests has...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 22, 2021 | D.C. News
President Joe Biden plans to announce at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly that the U.S. will buy another 500 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to distribute globally, doubling his earlier commitment. The latest purchase represents a...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 22, 2021 | Access & Coverage
A new analysis from Kaiser Family Foundation shows that 53 percent (31.3 million) of Medicare beneficiaries utilized dental services in 2018, with an average spending of $874. Thirty-five percent (20.3 million) used vision services and 8 percent (4.6 million) used...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 21, 2021 | M&A
HCA Healthcare announced it has agreed to buy five hospitals in Utah owned by Steward Health Care. The additional hospitals will bolster the health system’s presence in its Mountain Division – which includes 11 hospitals in Utah, Idaho, and Alaska – and allow HCA...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 21, 2021 | Life Sciences
Johnson & Johnson said a second dose of its COVID-19 vaccine was 94 percent effective at preventing symptomatic disease when given two months after the first shot in a late-stage trial in the U.S. A second study found the extra dose prompted a 12-fold uptick in...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 21, 2021 | Inequities and SDOH
The White House is launching “House America,” a new national initiative to combat the rising tide of homelessness. The initiative will ask leaders of city, county, state, and tribal governments across the U.S. to make a public pledge to reduce homelessness. In turn,...
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