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Sat, 2011-06-18 01:17 — mdmcdonald
The Agile Logistics working group will study progress being made to provide products and services to populations at risk.

The mission of the Agile Logistics working group is to focus on the progress being made in agile logistics to provide products and services to populations at risk as a result of events of mass consequence.

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Biden outlines plan to share vaccines with other countries but will miss shipping goals because of logistics.

Mon, 2021-06-21 16:39 — mike kraft
Biden outlines vaccine plan, set to miss global-sharing goal WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to fall short of his commitment to shipping 80 million COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end of June because of regulatory and other hurdles, officials said as they announced new plans Monday for sharing the shots globally. AP NEWS
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COVID-19
Vaccinations
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Health
Pandemics
Transportation
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Situation Report

Although more vaccines are on their way, logistical hurdles remain

Fri, 2021-02-12 10:36 — mike kraft

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Thursday it had secured 200 million more doses of coronavirus vaccines, enough to inoculate every American adult, but President Biden warned that logistical hurdles would most likely mean that many Americans will still not have been vaccinated by the end of the summer.

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COVID-19
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Situation Report

Rural clinics face unique challenges in connecting perishable vaccines with residents who often live miles away.

Fri, 2021-01-22 11:07 — mike kraft
With Fewer Resources, Rural America Tackles Vaccine Distribution Rural clinics face unique challenges in connecting perishable vaccines with residents who often live miles away. Elizabeth Miller Route Fifty
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COVID-19
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Amazon offers to help with vaccine distribution

Wed, 2021-01-20 21:35 — mike kraft
Amazon offers to help Biden with vaccine distribution Amazon sent a letter to President Biden in his first hours of office Wednesday offering to assist the new administration with its coronavirus vaccine distribution. Rebecca Klar TheHill
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Situation Report

IN DEPTH ANALYSIS: Vaccines were a chance to redeem failures in the U.S. coronavirus response. What went wrong?

Tue, 2021-01-12 13:43 — mike kraft
Vaccines were a chance to redeem failures in the U.S. coronavirus response. What went wrong? A delayed and disjointed rollout was fueled by political schisms and a decentralized health system. Lena H. Sun, Isaac Stanley-Becker, Frances Stead Sellers, Laurie McGinley, Amy Goldstein, Christopher Rowland, Carolyn Y. Johnson Washington Post
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Trump Officials Push Ambitious Vaccine Timeline as California Locks Down

Mon, 2020-12-07 09:18 — mike kraft

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s top health officials outlined an ambitious timetable on Sunday for distributing the first coronavirus vaccinations to as many as 24 million people by mid-January, even as the accelerating toll of the pandemic filled more hospital beds across the United States and prompted new shutdown orders in much of California.

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Beleaguered nursing homes prepare for monumental task of vaccinating residents and staff

Sat, 2020-12-05 11:41 — mike kraft
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Australia
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COVID-19
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Situation Report

Most States Aren’t Ready to Distribute the Leading COVID-19 Vaccine

Wed, 2020-11-11 10:40 — mike kraft
Most States Aren’t Ready to Distribute the Leading COVID-19 Vaccine A review of state distribution plans reveals that officials don’t know how they’ll deal with the difficult storage and transport requirements of Pfizer’s vaccine, especially in the rural areas… Isaac Arnsdorf,Ryan Gabrielson,Caroline Chen ProPublica
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Germany
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Ebola showed aid delivery desperately needs an overhaul

Fri, 2015-06-19 10:19 — mike kraft

REUTERS  by Stella Dawson                                                          JUNE 18, 2015

WASHINGTON -- The Ebola epidemic exposed long-standing holes in aid delivery,  which desperately needs an overhaul before the next international emergency hits, aid experts said on Thursday.

Supplies for the Ebola zone in West Africa wait to be loaded at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport September 20, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Many of the shortcomings seen during the Haiti earthquake of slow responses and uncoordinated relief efforts were repeated during the Ebola crisis that erupted in West Africa a year ago, they said.

With Sierra Leone and Guinea continuing to report cases of the deadly virus, the international community must act urgently, said Carolyn Reynolds, external relations manager at the World Bank.

"We need to think outside the box," she said at a panel on global health preparedness held on Capitol Hill.

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Hospitals Brace for National Saline Shortage

Mon, 2014-02-10 00:30 — Kathy Gilbeaux

     

At Houston Methodist Hospital, Celest Powell, 20, receives an IV saline solution that helps keep patients hydrated.

houstonchronicle.com - by Lora Hines - February 6, 2014

A severe flu season may have contributed to tightened supplies of intravenous saline solution, those ubiquitous bags that hospitals use by the thousands every day to keep patients hydrated and IVs flowing smoothly. . .

Late last year, three manufacturers of intravenous saline solutions, particularly sodium chloride, began alerting hospitals nationwide about shortages. At least one blamed the flu, which can leave patients dangerously dehydrated and in need of hospital care.

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