BIden will add clinics, bolster the public health workforce and invoke a wartime production law to ensure adequate vaccine supplies.
Author: Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY
‘Move heaven and earth’: President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 plan calls for 100 million shots in first 100 days
The president-elect pitches $20 billion for national vaccination program that will include community vaccination centers and mobile vaccination units.
Toilet paper, patio heaters and surgical gloves: Amazon vendors hiked prices on pandemic items, report says
New report found 409 of 750 ‘essential’ pandemic products sold by Amazon vendors saw price hikes of more than 20% over the past year.
‘A major breakthrough’: FDA authorizes nation’s first at-home, over-the-counter COVID-19 test
The FDA authorized the nation’s first home COVID-19 test without a prescription. The test, made by Australia-based Ellume, will cost about $30.
‘Momentous event’: HHS Secretary Alex Azar touts COVID-19 vaccine as a key to US herd immunity
Hospitals nationwide began immunizing health care workers Monday after the FDA’s authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
‘A very, very dark place’: Hospitals brace for crisis-care mode with too many patients, not enough staff
Hospital ICUs are filled with a record number of critically ill Americans with COVID-19, and there’s no relief in sight.
The demand for COVID-19 testing is up across the US, stressing labs and delaying results
Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp said higher COVID-19 testing demand across the U.S. means results will take longer, possibly up to three days.
‘The public has not listened’: Nursing home cases surge to all-time high as COVID-19 sweeps US
Despite federal efforts to shield residents, COVID-19 cases in nursing homes reached an all-time high of 10,279 during the week of Nov. 1.
‘Our neighbors, our family members’: Small-town hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths
As COVID-19 deaths surpass 2,000 a day, public health officials say the pandemic is straining rural hospitals short on staffing and expertise.
Hospitals overwhelmed: Exhausted staffs, surging COVID-19 cases push nation’s limits
The worsening COVID-19 outbreak, fueled by Americans’ fatigue, means hospitals are scrambling for more doctors, nurses and therapists to fill shifts.