COVID-19: Supplies and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
The FBI’s Baltimore Field Office, in coordination with Office of Private Sector (OPS), prepared this LIR to inform private sector partners about recent Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) fraud schemes targeting the Healthcare Sector.
The Food and Drug Administration released FAQs describing the procedures for importing respirators, face masks, and other personal protective equipment or medical devices for which the agency has issued an emergency use authorization or enforcement discretion policy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On June 4, Lincoln County Public Health (LCPH) recorded an outbreak of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Newport, Oregon, located about 85 miles southwest of Salem, Oregon. Five of these cases were connected to Pacific Seafood and they immediately began working with LCPH to get their employees tested.
Leading healthcare groups convened a summit, “Safe, Effective, and Accessible High-Quality Medicines as a Matter of National Security,” on July 27-31 to examine the resilience of the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain in light of the current state of global pharmaceutical manufacturing.
There’s a poignant moment in Hamilton: An American Musical in which a despondent George Washington laments the long odds of his revolution, “a powder keg about to explode” unless he receives an immediate infusion of the supplies and reinforcements he was initially promised at the war’s start.
Together, the AHA, the American Medical Association (AMA) and American Nurses Association (ANA) today
Hologic Inc. received $7.6 million from the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense to increase production of supplies needed for COVID-19 testing, including custom sample collection and processing consumables.
Through its 100 Million Mask Challenge AHA partnered with Microsoft, UPS, Kaiser Permanente, Goodwill, Merit Solutions and consulting firm Kearney to create HealthEquip, a smart app to connect hospitals treating COVID-19 patients with donations of personal protective equipment.
On this AHA on-demand webinar, the team that developed the Battelle Critical Care Decontamination SystemTM discuss the preservation service, while representatives from Mass General Brigham and University Pittsburgh Medical Center share individual strategies for collecting and redistributing…