President Trump announced the deal during a media briefing on Tuesday. Moderna is one of several companies manufacturing the vaccine “at risk,” as the industry calls it, meaning the company is currently making the vaccine before it is approved. Clinical trials are currently underway to test whether it’s safe and effective. Under this contract, worth… Read More »
Testing shortages continue along with gaps in the supply chain for reagents, swabs, plastics, viral transport media and personal protection equipment, the American Medical Association and other health organizations told Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in a letter sent today. The letter went out the day after HHS said it had… Read More »
“Our society is, in so many ways, at a tipping point. There’s so much that we need to do right now, and there’s one thing we need most of all, and that’s voices of conviction, voices of reason to help guide us through these difficult times,” Bacow said. Williams said the field of public health… Read More »
As some youth sports teams get started again, some summer camps and daycares are opening up, and we begin to think about school (or some form of it) in the fall, many parents are wondering: what do I do about getting that physical form I need for my child? Understandably, many families do not want… Read More »