• US orders 300M doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine

    US orders 300M doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine

    The feds have ordered 300 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine from British drugmaker AstraZeneca, officials said Thursday. The company will get up to $1.2 billion from the US Department of Health and Human Services to speed the development and production of the vaccine with the goal of delivering the first doses as early …
  • HHS: 90 Percent of Federal PPE Stockpile Depleted amid Coronavirus Pandemic

    HHS: 90 Percent of Federal PPE Stockpile Depleted amid Coronavirus Pandemic

    A worker manages a shipment of personal protective equipment (PPE) in Bari, Italy, April 7, 2020. (Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters) The Department of Health and Human Services revealed Wednesday that the nation’s federal stockpile was deploying nearly all of its remaining personal protective equipment (PPE), confirming a Congressional report showing that approximately 90 percent of the PPE …
  • GM to make 30,000 ventilators to help US fight coronavirus pandemic

    GM to make 30,000 ventilators to help US fight coronavirus pandemic

    General Motors will make 30,000 ventilators within five months to support the US’s fight against the coronavirus, the feds said Wednesday. The automaker will deliver the life-saving machines to the Strategic National Stockpile by the end of August through a $489.4 million contract with the federal Department of Health and Human Services, officials said. It’s …
  • Report : U.S. health agency Suffers Cyber-Attack during coronavirus outbreak, Officials Assume ‘Hostile Foreign Actor’

    Report : U.S. health agency Suffers Cyber-Attack during coronavirus outbreak, Officials Assume ‘Hostile Foreign Actor’

    A projection of binary code on a man holding a laptop computer, in an office in Warsaw June 24, 2013. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters) U.S. Health and Human Services suffered a cyber-attack on its computer system Sunday night, three sources told Bloomberg. Officials believed the attack was from a hostile foreign actor, and was designed to slow …