Supply Chain

A former worker at Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia, Tenn., was charged with stealing nearly $800,000 worth of medical supplies from the hospital and selling them online for his personal benefit, Williamson Source reported. 

States are urging Congress to provide at least $8.4 billion to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine, The Hill reported. 

A group that represents some of the largest employers in New York City issued a report urging the city to develop its own group purchasing organization for hospital supplies as a strategy to improve the city's overall public health system,…

Understanding product availability is crucial to running any successful supply chain model. Recent circumstances have triggered an increase in stockpiling efforts, which has revealed several misconceptions regarding lean supply chains–specifically low or logical unit-of-measure (LUM) ordering and distribution.

Ten hospitals and health systems posted job listings for supply chain expertise in the last week:

Leaders of the National Governors Association requested a meeting with President Donald Trump Oct. 15 to discuss the "roles and expectations of states" when it comes to COVID-19 vaccine distribution, The Hill reported. 

The FDA reissued its emergency use authorization Oct. 15 for KN95 respirators made in China that aren't approved by the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. 

Just 28 percent of air cargo companies say they feel prepared to transport COVID-19 vaccines, according to a survey conducted by the International Air Cargo Association and Pharma.Aero, an organization of air cargo carriers that specialize in transporting pharmaceuticals. 

The U.S. is investing $481 million in a startup diagnostics company to boost manufacturing of its point-of-care COVID-19 test, the same one used  by the NBA this season.

Roche said Oct. 13 it is launching a new, lab-based COVID-19 antigen test.