Category: Regulatory

February 24, 2021

Xavier Becerra had a mostly smooth nomination hearing before the Senate health committee Tuesday despite accusations from some GOP members on his support for abortion rights, lack of medical credentials and executive experience in the face of the COVID-19 public […]

February 23, 2021

Leaders of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 response announced new efforts on Monday to boost vaccine confidence, urged schools to return to in-person learning, and walked through new FDA guidance for drug manufacturers aiming to address variants. The team also acknowledged […]

February 17, 2021

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will invest more than $1.6 billion to increase Covid-19 testing supplies and expand testing programs in schools and elsewhere as well as genomic sequencing in the United States. “We need to test broadly […]

February 16, 2021

The Biden administration is increasing the number of Covid-19 vaccine doses shipped to states weekly, sending out 13.5 million doses this week and doubling the number going to retail pharmacies, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday. As of […]

February 12, 2021

Covid-19 has pushed states to adopt unique approaches to protect their residents, but few have garnered as much scrutiny as South Dakota. Its governor, Kristi Noem, refused to enact a mask mandate or close any businesses. She argued these precautions […]

February 12, 2021

FDA veterans and other public health experts worry that, in perhaps the most momentous period in the agency’s history, President Biden has yet to tap a new commissioner. (The Washington Post) Three hundred million, that’s how many doses of the […]

February 9, 2021

The White House will begin shipping doses of Covid-19 vaccines directly to federally qualified community health centers next week to expand outreach to traditionally underserved communities, White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients announced Tuesday. Along with other initiatives such […]

February 5, 2021

The Secretary of Defense has approved the deployment of more than 1,000 active duty troops to help deliver Covid-19 vaccines across the U.S., a member of President Joe Biden’s coronavirus response team announced Friday. Some of the troops will arrive […]

January 28, 2021

Late last month, before President Joe Biden took office and proposed his pandemic relief plan, Congress passed a nearly 5,600-page legislative package that provided some pandemic relief along with its more general allocations to fund the government in 2021. While […]

January 27, 2021

President Biden promised Tuesday to rapidly increase the number of COVID-19 vaccines available in the U.S., saying that “100 million shots in 100 days is not the endpoint; it’s just the start.” “We’re not stopping there,” Biden said in an […]

January 27, 2021

U.S. airport screenings fell to the lowest level in more than six months as Covid-19 infections climb and the Biden administration introduces new travel restrictions. The Transportation Security Administration screened just 468,933 people at U.S. airports on Tuesday, down 71% […]

January 22, 2021

Public health agencies have embarked on an ambitious program. They must equitably distribute and safely administer enough COVID-19 vaccines to immunize at least 70% of the population to achieve herd immunity and enable the country to return to some semblance […]

January 20, 2021

Every pandemic starts as a squall—a localized disturbance in a single city or town, causing all manner of problems there, but sparing the larger world outside. Squalls become storms, however, and storms become tempests and before long the entire world […]

January 15, 2021

The U.S. has shipped over half a million doses of antibody treatments that have the potential to keep high-risk Covid patients out of hospitals if given early enough in their infection. This would help already overburdened hospitals avoid additional strain, […]

January 14, 2021

President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan Thursday to end “a crisis of deep human suffering” by speeding up vaccines and pumping out financial help to those struggling with the pandemic’s prolonged economic fallout. Called the “American Rescue […]