Supply Chain
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Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized almost 13 million counterfeit face masks in the 12 months ending Sept. 30, according to a report cited by The Wall Street Journal.
The only vaccination site in Baltimore is offering only second doses of COVID-19 vaccines all month due to a lack of supply, The Baltimore Sun reports.
A drone delivery company called Zipline has partnered with a "leading manufacturer of COVID-19 vaccines" and plans to deliver shots via drone as soon as April, The Hill reported Feb. 4.
Startup company Wellness 4 Humanity has created a COVID-19 test to be sold in vending machines, CBS News reported.
Premier CEO Susan DeVore will retire after 18 years at the company effective May 1, Premier said Feb. 2.
Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, told CNBC Feb. 2 that the country's COVID-19 testing system is "discontinuous" and "problematic" and that he doesn't expect any large-scale improvements until fall.
At the pace Kaiser Permanente is receiving COVID-19 vaccines from the federal government, it would take the Oakland, Calif.-based system more than four years to vaccinate all of its patients, ABC 7 reports.
The U.S. Agency for International Development spent $200 million to send 8,722 ventilators to other countries last year, a report from the Government Accountability Office found.
The U.S. Defense Department on Feb. 1 signed a $231.8 million deal with Australian company Ellume to onshore the production of its at-home COVID-19 tests.