Supply Chain

Medtronic released an update on how its business has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and warned investors to expect a significant hit to earnings, MedTech Dive reported. 

Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is running out of inline suction catheters used to treat patients on ventilators, and the shortage is putting providers at risk, STAT reported. 

Maryland bought half a million COVID-19 tests from South Korea for $9 million, NPR reported. 

New York City-based Northwell Health and University of South Florida Health in Tampa have teamed up to design a 3D-printed swab to be used for COVID-19 testing in an effort to relieve shortages and ramp up testing, CNBC reported. 

New York City is creating its own stockpile of medical supplies including gowns, testing kits and ventilators, according to Mayor Bill De Blasio, CNBC reported. 

The FDA has authorized the first COVID-19 diagnostic test that can be taken at home by patients, the agency said April 21. 

The chief physician executive at Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health, Andrew Artenstein, MD, was questioned by FBI agents while trying to pick up medical supplies to protect his hospital staff against COVID-19, he wrote in a note published in The New…

Isolation gowns surpassed N95 masks as hospitals' top shortage concern in an April 17 survey conducted by group purchasing organization Premier. 

The FDA has allowed more than 90 antibody tests on the market without prior review, leaving experts concerned about the quality of the tests, The Washington Post reported. 

New York City hospitals are starting to see shortages of dialysis fluid as thousands of COVID-19 patients develop kidney failure, according to Politico.