The fragmented U.S. health care system has hampered efforts to expand coronavirus testing, by making it difficult for hospitals to switch to new labs with ample capacity.
Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III wants to create a fund to compensate essential workers for financial losses incurred after falling ill from COVID-19, and offer death benefits to the families of workers who have died from the disease during the pandemic.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics could be facing more than $100 million in loss through June due to the coronavirus pandemic. But it says it has not planned any layoffs. UIHC will instead look to other cost-cutting options, considering layoffs a last resort.
Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca has received $1 billion in funding from the U.S. government for the production of its coronavirus vaccine, adding that it has secured orders for 400 million doses of the unproven treatment for delivery from September.
Nine top scientists who advised Barack Obama in the White House are warning that the US has just three months to rebuild its national stockpile of emergency medical supplies or risk further drastic shortages of testing kits and protective gear should coronavirus strike again in the fall.
The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same.