Amazon is teaming up Seattle-based health system Virginia Mason to establish a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination site on Jan. 24, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced during a Jan. 21 news conference.

The CDC said 10 cases of confirmed anaphylaxis have occurred in patients shortly after receiving a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, an average of 2.5 cases of anaphylaxis out of 1 million shots given. 

Eli Lilly's COVID-19 antibody drug, bamlanivimab, significantly reduced the risk of contracting symptomatic COVID-19 in residents and staff of long-term care facilities, the drugmaker said Jan. 21. 

Almost 2,000 doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine were spoiled when a cleaning contractor accidentally loosened a plug on a freezer at Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center in Boston, The Boston Globe reported Jan. 21. 

Pfizer and Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines may not be as effective against the coronavirus variants that have appeared in other countries, including the U.K. and South Africa, Anthony Fauci, MD, the White House health adviser told CNBC Jan. 21.

Group purchasing organization Premier, through its ProvideGx program, has partnered with Pfizer to supply healthcare providers with five drugs, some of which are critical for treating COVID-19 patients, the companies said Jan. 21. 

The FDA approved Cabenuva, a long-acting two shot combination that helps HIV patients treat their condition more conveniently and privately, the agency announced Jan. 21.

The lack of cohesive waste reporting requirements has given the facilities that provide COVID-19 vaccines little incentive to acknowledge vaccines that have been wasted, according to a Jan. 21 ProPublica report. 

The business of pharmacy extends across the entire continuum of care, but for some hospitals and health systems, pharmacy may be an undervalued and underutilized resource. An optimized pharmacy enterprise has the potential to significantly contribute to expense reduction, revenue enhancement, improved therapeutic outcomes, improved safety profile around medications and a reduced risk profile around regulatory compliance.

The U.S. will not be able to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to all pharmacies in the country by late February as former HHS Secretary Alex Azar promised, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, told NBC Jan. 21.

Anthony Fauci, MD, said the U.S. would join Covax, the international effort to ensure equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution across the globe, during his Jan. 21 address to the World Health Organization.

New York City has been forced to temporarily close 15 vaccination sites from Jan. 21-24 because the city isn't receiving enough vaccine doses from the federal government, CBS News reported. 

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy told CNBC Jan. 20 he thinks the federal partnership with CVS and Walgreens to distribute COVID-19 vaccines has slowed the state's vaccine rollout. 

SpecialtyRx, a pharmacy provider in Columbus, Ohio, was suspended from distributing COVID-19 vaccines Jan. 20 after the state's health department discovered the provider potentially mishandled and wasted 890 doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine. 

California's state epidemiologist, Erica Pan, MD, told healthcare providers Jan. 20 to "immediately resume" using a batch of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines the state stopped administering earlier this week after a higher than usual number of severe allergic reactions were reported in San Diego. 

The FDA on Jan. 20 approved Verquvo, a soluble guanylate cyclase stimulator developed by Merck and Bayer.

CVS Health has named Kyu Rhee, MD, as senior vice president and chief medical officer of Aetna. 

Amazon's CEO of consumer business, Dave Clark, sent a letter to President Joe Biden shortly after he was sworn in Jan. 20 offering Amazon's help in distributing COVID-19 vaccines, NBC News reports. 

Many COVID-19 patients have had to advocate for themselves to get access to antibody drugs from Eli Lilly and Regeneron, according to a report from Kaiser Health News. 

Many participants age 65 and older are dropping out of Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine trial after local governments started vaccinating this population with the two FDA-authorized vaccines, The Washington Post reported Jan. 19.