New report found 409 of 750 ‘essential’ pandemic products sold by Amazon vendors saw price hikes of more than 20% over the past year.
Author: Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY
Government program tapped to pay for COVID-19 vaccine injuries rarely sides with consumers
As COVID-19 vaccines are shipped to millions of Americans, experts ask whether people will get a fair review in rare cases of serious side effects.
‘A major breakthrough’: FDA authorizes nation’s first at-home, over-the-counter COVID-19 test
The FDA authorized the nation’s first home COVID-19 test without a prescription. The test, made by Australia-based Ellume, will cost about $30.
‘Momentous event’: HHS Secretary Alex Azar touts COVID-19 vaccine as a key to US herd immunity
Hospitals nationwide began immunizing health care workers Monday after the FDA’s authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
‘Our neighbors, our family members’: Small-town hospitals overwhelmed by COVID deaths
As COVID deaths surpass 2,000 a day, public health officials say the pandemic is straining rural hospitals short on staffing and expertise.
Hospitals overwhelmed: Exhausted staffs, surging COVID-19 cases push nation’s limits
The worsening COVID-19 outbreak, fueled by Americans’ fatigue, means hospitals are scrambling for more doctors, nurses and therapists to fill shifts.
Fast, cheap, accurate: Researchers pin hopes on Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR-technology tests to detect coronavirus
UC Berkeley’s Nobel Prize winner and MIT researchers employ gene-editing technology to develop rapid COVID-19 virus tests.
‘Totally unacceptable’: Testing delays force labs to prioritize COVID-19 tests for some, not others
Without a national plan on testing there simply is not enough capacity now to screen Americans with mild cases who might pass the virus to others.
State attorneys general: Use federal law to lower cost, increase supply of COVID-19 drug remdesivir
California, Louisiana and other attorneys general say Gilead Sciences’ antiviral should be licensed to others to ease potential shortages, lower price
‘Pushing the frontiers’: Long lines for COVID tests, stressed labs delay results as demand spikes
COVID-19 test results are delayed a week or longer in hotspot communities, undercutting public health efforts to track, isolate and prevent spread.