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Used N95 masks are collected at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital on April 13. Hospital staff members wrote their names on the masks so each could be returned after being cleaned, a strategy used to alleviate critical shortages of respirator masks.

A Revamped Strategic National Stockpile Still Can't Match The Pandemic's Latest Surge

The Strategic National Stockpile stores critical supplies. It fell short when the pandemic first hit. Now, a new effort is being implemented, but it's still not providing what the U.S. needs.

Speaking to reporters outside the Arkansas governor's mansion this week, Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, indicated that data on U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations will eventually move back to the CDC, under a "revolutionary new data system" the agency is developing.

Birx Stokes Hopes That Key Hospital Data Tracking Will Soon Return To CDC

Dr. Deborah Birx says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is creating a new way to track COVID-19 hospitalizations a month after such data collection was moved outside the agency.

Emergency medical technicians wheel a patient into the ER of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Emergency hospitalizations related to COViD-19 can be costly. Fine print in the HHS rules regarding the CARES Act seem to spare patients at least some of the financial pain.

In Fine Print, HHS Seems To Have Banned Surprise Medical Bills During The Pandemic

Guidance regarding the CARES Act says health care providers who take emergency funds aren't allowed to "balance bill" coronavirus patients ― and every patient is a possible COVID-19 patient.

In Fine Print, HHS Seems To Have Banned Surprise Medical Bills During The Pandemic

Guidance regarding the CARES Act says health care providers who take emergency funds aren't allowed to "balance bill" coronavirus patients ― and every patient is a possible COVID-19 patient.

A Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot was ready to be administered last week. The U.S. government has reached a deal with Pfizer to purchase 100 million more vaccine doses.

U.S. Reaches Deal With Pfizer For 100 Million More Vaccine Doses

The new deal effectively doubles the federal government's order from the company. Pfizer says the U.S. government has agreed to pay $1.95 billion for the additional doses.

A heavily redacted supply contract between the federal government and vaccine developer Moderna, headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., was released Friday.

A Federal Coronavirus Vaccine Contract Released At Last, But Redactions Obscure Terms

Most of the federal contracts with companies involved in the crash program to make COVID-19 vaccines haven't been made public. The lack of disclosure raises questions about accountability.

An asylum-seeking boy from Central America runs down a hallway after arriving from an immigration detention center to a shelter in San Diego, Dec. 11, 2018.

Report: US Knew Of Problems Family Separation Would Cause

A new report says that months before the Trump administration separated thousands of families at the U.S.-Mexico border, a “pilot program” in Texas left child-welfare officials scrambling to find empty beds for babies taken from their parents. The problems in the pilot program previewed what would happen months later: government employees caring for young children and many parents being deported without their kids.

"Pfizer is not having any production issues with our COVID-19 vaccine," CEO Albert Bourla says. But Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says the company has had problems. Many states say their allocations for next week have been cut, without an explanation.

Pfizer Says Millions Of Vaccine Doses Are Ready, But States Say Shipments Were Cut

Pfizer is pushing back on the Trump administration's suggestion that the company is having trouble producing enough COVID-19 vaccine.

A staffer checks on a ventilator in an intensive care unit in Chennai, India, Friday. States in the U.S. are coming up with plans for what to do if they run out of ventilators and other supplies.

HHS Warns States Not To Put People With Disabilities At The Back Of The Line For Care

States are preparing guidelines for when there's not enough care to go around. Disability groups are worried that those standards will allow rationing that excludes people with disabilities.

Used N95 masks are collected at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital on April 13, 2020. Hospital staff wrote their names on the masks so each could be returned after being cleaned, a strategy used to alleviate critical shortages of respirator masks.

A Revamped Strategic National Stockpile Still Can't Match The Pandemic's Latest Surge

The Strategic National Stockpile stores critical supplies. It fell short when the pandemic first hit. Now, a new effort is being implemented, but it's still not providing what the U.S. needs.

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