The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) is reportedly terminating more ventilator contracts as the national stockpile is full. The Hill reported today that HHS is throwing out some of the contracts that totaled $3 billion as the U.S. government sought to supply as many ventilators as possible during the first surge of […]
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Ventec, GM complete HHS ventilator contract
Ventec Life Systems and General Motors announced today that they completed their government contract to produce 30,000 ventilators. The two companies kicked off mass production of Ventec’s V+Pro critical care ventilator at GM’s Kokomo, Ind., plant in April, having received a $489.4 million contract from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services to deliver […]
HHS pulls FDA back from regulating some COVID-19 tests
FDA will no longer require a premarket review of laboratory-developed tests during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a decision announced on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website. Such a requirement in the future will need notice-and-comment rulemaking versus guidance documents, compliance manuals, website statements or other informal issuances, HHS said in the decision […]
HHS puts $6.5M more toward COVID-19 testing
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said today it will provide a total of $6.5 million to help two commercial diagnostic laboratories to expand capacity to conduct up to 4 million additional diagnostic tests for COVID-19 per month. The investments in Aegis Sciences (Nashville, Tenn.) and in Sonic Healthcare USA (Austin, Texas) […]
