AJMC Staff

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This week, the top managed care news included CMS updates on telehealth and more; COVID-19 vaccine developments and remaining challenges; a study examines the impact of state policies on life expectancy.

Health care workers of color are nearly 2 times more likely than their white colleagues to test positive for coronavirus disease 2019; Teladoc Health announced an agreement to acquire Livongo, a diabetes coaching company, for $18.5 billion; the CDC has issued a warning against ingesting alcohol-based hand sanitizer in response to reports of poisonings in the United States.

This Week in Managed Care, July 31, 2020

This week, the top managed care news included top pharmaceutical executives refuse to attend a Trump meeting after executive orders on costs; a survey shows concerns about reopening schools, toll of COVID-19 split by party lines, background; a review of 20 years of data concludes vaccines are "remarkably safe."

A meeting at the White House with top pharmaceutical executives has been cancelled after the Trump administration’s executive orders signed this past Friday on the topic drew criticism from the drug industry; Kodak has won a $765 million US government loan to assist in expediting domestic production of drugs to treat several medical conditions and reduce US reliance on foreign supplies; more than a third of patients with mild illness from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) reported related symptoms that lasted for 2 to 3 weeks after testing positive.

In beginning the first phase 3 clinical trial to examine a vaccine candidate for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Moderna Inc announced that the Trump administration increased funding to expand the trial to 30,000 US participants; employers have considered and some have made it a requirement for employees to sign a waiver to not sue the organization if they are infected by COVID-19 or suffered any injury while working; study finds 1 flu shot can reduce the risk for Alzheimer disease by 17% and 1 pneumonia vaccine before age 75 can reduce the risk by 25%.

New CDC data outline the prevalence of 5 common underlying health conditions that exacerbate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms; the FDA announced information regarding naloxone must be included on labels for opioids and opioid use disorder medications; despite a district judge's ruling nearly a month ago, hundreds of migrant detainees are being held in detention centers in states where COVID-19 cases are surging.

Labs nationwide are struggling to meet the processing demands of surging coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests, causing long delays; levels of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were found to drop dramatically across the first 3 months of infection; suspected opioid-related overdoses have more than doubled in Wisconsin amid the pandemic.

Interviews on presentations made during the 2020 Virtual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, featuring Drs Melissa L. Johnson, Constantine S. Tam, Adrian Kilcoyne, Sara L. Douglas, and Jeffrey Skolnick.



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