Vizient to Present at the Healthcare Distribution Alliance’s 2020 Traceability Seminar
Vizient, Inc. announced that pharmacy expert Katrina Harper, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, clinical pharmacy director, will present at the Healthcare Distribution Alliance’s 2020 Traceability Online Seminar. The event, which is being held virtually Nov. 2-4, brings together stakeholders from the health care supply chain to learn more about upcoming DSCSA implementation milestones for serialization and traceability technologies to further preserve the safety and security of pharmaceuticals.
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Katrina Harper, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, clinical pharmacy director, Vizient, will present at the Healthcare Distribution Alliance’s 2020 Traceability Online Seminar. (Photo: Business Wire)
Harper will participate in the panel discussion “Perspectives from the Dispenser Community” on Tuesday, Nov. 3 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. EST. Panelists will share their current thinking, approaches and challenges regarding the implementation of DSCSA. Topics to be addressed will include the structure of, and planning toward, a 2023 system; cost concerns; scanning and hardware upgrades across the dispensing community; communication strategies regarding packaging and bar code changes; and how dispensers report issues to FDA and upstream to suppliers.
“As with most regulatory requirements put into place to improve our health care system, there are milestones along the way that must be met,” said Harper. “Some of the requirements have already gone into effect, yet many in the industry are unaware or unprepared for what is already in play and what is yet to come. This discussion will help those impacted to better understand the requirements and what they will need to plan for in order to be ready.”
About Vizient, Inc.
Vizient, Inc. provides solutions and services that improve the delivery of high-value care by aligning cost, quality and market performance for more than 50% of the nation’s acute care providers, which includes 95% of the nation’s academic medical centers, and more than 20% of ambulatory providers. Vizient provides expertise, analytics and advisory services, as well as a contract portfolio that represents more than $100 billion in annual purchasing volume, to improve patient outcomes and lower costs. Vizient has earned a World’s Most Ethical Company designation from the Ethisphere Institute every year since its inception. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Vizient has offices throughout the United States. Learn more at www.vizientinc.com.
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New Mexico building infrastructure for vaccine distribution
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It could be well into next year before a COVID-19 vaccine is widely available, but top health officials in New Mexico said Tuesday that they have submitted their plan to the federal government for building the infrastructure, tracking systems and partnerships that will be needed for distribution.
The focus will be on vaccinating health care workers and first responders, then nursing home residents and staff. They acknowledged that supplies will likely be limited early on and immunizations for the general public would come later.
Health officials outlined New Mexico’s plan for lawmakers amid a surge in infections. Lawmakers had questions about everything from cost and security to whether the state would have to compete for doses as it did for personal protective equipment at the onset of the pandemic.
Dr. Aja Sanzone, a leader of the planning team and medical director of the state’s Infectious Disease Bureau, said officials have estimated that immunity through vaccination would require immunizing about 70% of the population. In New Mexico, that means distributing 2.9 million doses if two doses per person were needed.
“So definitely a heavy lift there. It would be more than twice the amount of annual flu vaccine that we administer,” she said.
A White House-backed initiative called “Operation Warp Speed” is pushing to have a vaccine ready for distribution in the coming months. The government is spending billions of dollars to manufacture vaccines even before they receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, thereby cutting the timeline for delivery. FDA officials say the program won’t interfere with their own science-based decisions and that vaccines not meeting the test for approval would be discarded.
Sanzone noted that the FDA in June advised vaccine makers that the federal agency would want to see evidence that vaccines can protect at least 50% of those receiving it.
States had until Oct. 16 to submit their distribution plans to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New Mexico officials described the plans as “living documents” with gaps that will be filled in as more information is released by the federal government.
“They keep updating us every week,” said Daniel Burke, chief of the Infectious Disease Bureau. “Really, they’re building the plane as we fly it nationally. They’re adding more and more pieces of information, and it’s now really well laid out.”
While there are still some unknowns, he said New Mexico’s plan addresses logistics, communication, data collection and partnerships with pharmacies and community health centers, among other things.
The state Health Department is surveying hospitals, pharmacies and others to identify capacity to administer vaccines. That information is being plugged into an interactive map to help with planning.
One of the biggest challenges will be what Sanzone said is fading public confidence in the development of a vaccine. She said recent survey results suggest there’s growing concern that the regulatory approval process has been politicized.
“So our goal really is to restore public confidence in the safety and efficacy of vaccines. It
Low temps and high costs: Coronavirus vaccine distribution will face a “big challenge”
“CBS This Morning” explores whether America is ready for a coronavirus vaccine in a special three-part series, Road to a Vaccine. Part three airs Wednesday, October 28 on “CBS This Morning,” 7-9 a.m. on CBS. Watch part one here.
The earliest a coronavirus vaccine is expected to be ready for FDA authorization is the end of November. The CDC has already given states $200 million to prepare for distribution.
But shipping companies like DHL have a daunting task — preparing to transport a coronavirus vaccine without knowing where the vaccine will be manufactured, what the packaging will be or how cold it will need to be kept.
“There’s still a lot of things that are unknown. And we’ve been talking to the different manufacturers, who are in various phases of the clinical trials to get ready,” DHL’s CEO of Global Forwarding USA David Goldberg told CBS News senior medical correspondent Dr. Tara Narula.
At the DHL cold-chain facility near Chicago’s O’Hare airport, vaccines are stored at various temperatures before they’re sent to doctors’ offices, pharmacies and hospitals.
“We’ve been moving the flu vaccine, the meningitis vaccine,” Goldberg said. “I think the challenge related to this vaccine is it’s, you know, a vaccine that the world needs as soon as possible, at once, which will make it very difficult in terms of logistics.”
The colder the vaccine, the more complicated the logistics. Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine candidate needs to be kept at about minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit, while Moderna’s needs to be stored at minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit.
“A lot of providers don’t have that type of storage,” said North Dakota Immunization Program Manager Molly Howell.
The ultra-cold storage requirement will make it challenging for states to get the vaccine to their residents, Howell said.
“Once a provider receives that vaccine, it really starts the clock that the vaccine needs to be administered within five days of when it’s put in the refrigerator,” she said.
Pfizer’s vaccine is expected to ship in containers with almost 1,000 shots, which worries Howell.
“The minimum increment of 1,000 doses and figuring out how we can get that to the rural areas is what’s keeping me up at night,” she said. “We’re thinking about the possibility of having to repackage and redistribute that vaccine into smaller quantities.”
While states like North Dakota gear up for mass distribution, the pandemic continues to batter state budgets. The trade associations that represent health officials across the country have asked Congress for $8.4 billion to help states distribute the vaccine.
States and their health departments are “tapped out financially,” said Georgetown professor Dr. Jesse Goodman.
“Also, in terms of their human resources, they’ve been running at 100 miles an hour to do the contact tracing to make up for a not very efficient federal response,” he said.
Goodman said there needs to be an effective national system for distributing and monitoring the vaccine.
“Otherwise, it’s going to be chaos,” Goodman said. “We may have multiple vaccines. We may
Austin Health Officials Plan For Coronavirus Vaccine Distribution
AUSTIN, TX — Austin Public Health officials on Friday launched a so-called Vaccine Distribution Coalition in preparing for availability of a vaccine for the coronavirus one it’s readily available.
The coalition comprises local health care and community partners with an aim to assist the health district in developing strategies for vaccination coverage, Austin Public Health officials wrote in an advisory. Coalitions within local jurisdictions were identified by the federal government as a best practice and are key to successful rapid vaccine distribution planning, officials added.
“Slowing the spread of COVID-19 in Austin-Travis County has been a community effort since the beginning,” Austin Public Health Director Stephanie Hayden said in a prepared statement. “Planning for the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine will once again require many stakeholders and a community effort to be successful. We still have a long road ahead of us, but the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Coalition marks the beginning of a new chapter in our response.”
Local officials have been guided by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publication titled the COVID-19 Vaccination Program Interim Playbook for Jurisdiction Operations, which includes information on vaccination program planning and implementation tactics, Austin Public Health officials said. COVID-19 vaccine supply is expected to be limited at the beginning of distribution, local officials noted, so the allocation of doses may need to be prioritized for critical populations such as critical infrastructure workers, people at increased risk for severe COVID-19 illness, people at increased risk of acquiring or transmitting COVID-19, and people with limited access to routine vaccination services.
“As a community, we need to recognize that even when a vaccine becomes available, initially it will not be widely available for the general public,” Dr. Mark Escott, the interim Austin-Travis County health authority, said in a prepared statement. “We will need to prioritize our most vulnerable and ensure equitable distribution across our community.”
Austin Public Health officials said initial coalition meetings will focus on identifying these critical populations as well as strategizing for distribution channels, vaccine temperature storage and management along with community messaging and engagement efforts.
For COVID-19 information and updates, visit the COVID-19 Information page in the City of Austin website.
This article originally appeared on the Austin Patch
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Clostridium Vaccine Market Research Report by Animal Type, by Distribution Channel – Global Forecast to 2025
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As Illinois reports 69 COVID-19-related deaths, the highest daily toll since June, state issues plan for vaccine distribution
CHICAGO — Illinois on Wednesday recorded its highest daily coronavirus-related death toll since June as state officials released an early version of its plan for how a vaccine will be distributed once one is approved and available.
The plan “is designed to provide an equitable distribution across the state with priority access going to our most vulnerable populations, front-line health care workers and first responders who directly interact with and treat COVID patients, as well as staff and residents in long-term care facilities,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said during his daily coronavirus news briefing.
The plan will “evolve as vaccine trials come to a conclusion and the FDA decides which to approve,” Pritzker said, noting that there are a range of unknowns around whether vaccinations will require multiple doses and if they will need cold or room temperature storage.
While President Donald Trump has vowed that a vaccination could be available soon, most experts think that won’t happen until next year, a point backed up on Wednesday by Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike.
“Vaccinations, once they arrive, will take many, many months, at the minimum, to actually get into the arms of the people of Illinois,” Ezike said. “So this will unfold in phases, with initially only a small amount of vaccine available, and as production ramps up, more individuals will be able to avail themselves of this countermeasure.”
Once a vaccine is available, the state will build off its existing vaccine registry system that tracks immunizations for children, to track the geographic distribution of vaccines. “And that can help us further direct the traffic of future vaccine to come, if we see that a region that has been hardest hit by the virus and they have a lower percentage of people who have gotten immunized,” Ezike said.
Chicago would get its own distribution of the vaccine directly from the CDC under the plan.
COVID-19 vaccinations will not be mandated, though officials will also work to address “vaccine hesitancy,” Ezike said, noting “people who may need it most might have the reason to be most hesitant, and so we’re going to have to work with communities to address issues, to notify, to educate, to have their questions answered.”
“Illinois will not distribute a vaccine until we have one that is proven safe and effective,” Pritzker said.
The state on Wednesday reported 69 deaths of people with COVID-19 over a 24-hour period on Wednesday, bringing the state-reported death toll to 9,345 people in Illinois since the pandemic began. The last time the statewide death toll for a single day surpassed 60 was June 24, when the number of deaths reported was 64.
The regional trends across the state “are still moving in the wrong direction,” Pritzker said Wednesday.
The seven-day average for deaths climbed to 39 as of Wednesday, still far short of the average daily number of deaths being reported for part of the spring, when the state was in the grip of the first
Pfizer Sets Up Its ‘Biggest Ever’ Vaccination Distribution Campaign
In Kalamazoo, Mich., a stretch of land the size of a football field has been turned into a staging ground outfitted with 350 large freezers, ready to take delivery of millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccine before they can be shipped around the world.
The facility is a hub in the sprawling supply chain
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has built to handle the delivery of a vaccine widely awaited as a possible relief from the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. pharmaceutical giant says it wants to deliver up to 100 million doses this year and another 1.3 billion in 2021.
Like other drugmakers testing potential vaccines, Pfizer is urgently laying the groundwork with its logistics partners so it can move quickly if its vaccine gets the go-ahead from the Food and Drug Administration and other regulators around the world.
“It’s the biggest-ever vaccination campaign,” said Tanya Alcorn, Pfizer’s supply-chain vice president. “If we get the FDA approval, we will be able to ship the vaccines very shortly after.”
The New York-based drugmaker is working with Germany’s
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on one of several experimental Covid-19 vaccines in late-stage testing. Pfizer says it may know whether its vaccine works by the end of October and that it could be ready to apply for emergency-use authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine by late November.
The company’s effort to deliver relief to pandemic-weary populations will revolve around refrigerated storage sites at two of the company’s final assembly centers—the Kalamazoo facility and another in Puurs, Belgium—and rely on dozens of cargo-jet flights and hundreds of truck trips every day. Distribution centers in Pleasant Prairie, Wis., and in Karlsruhe, Germany, have been outfitted for extra storage capacity.
Pfizer so far has spent about $2 billion on developing the vaccine and setting up the distribution network.
The U.S. government placed an initial order for 100 million doses, with the option to purchase 500 million additional doses. The EU ordered 200 million doses with an option for another 100 million. Japan ordered 120 million doses and the U.K. 30 million. Countries in South America and in the Asia-Pacific region also have placed significant orders.
In a typical vaccination campaign, pharmaceutical companies would wait until their product is approved before buying raw materials, establishing manufacturing lines and setting up supply chains to ship a vaccine.
Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla said that the company began setting the groundwork for its supply chain in March, when it kicked off its vaccine development.
“Ensuring over a billion people globally have access to our potential vaccine is as critical as developing the vaccine itself,” he said.
Pfizer says it is preparing for distribution in case the vaccine wins authorization, with hundreds of thousands of doses already in the company’s warehouses in the U.S. and Europe.
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To make sure its Covid-19 vaccine doses arrive at hospitals and clinics frozen and potent, Pfizer created
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker on state’s vaccine distribution plan
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker said Tuesday the state is developing a plan to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine. The plan lays out the initial steps for a “robust, comprehensive and equitable” vaccine distribution system once one or more vaccines become available.
Officials anticipate limited supply in the early phase and plan to prioritize some health care workers, people at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19 – including people with underlying medical conditions and those older than 65 – and other essential workers, Baker said.
“The plan also outlines our messaging efforts to make sure people know once there is a vaccine available, that it has been approved by the federal government and is safe and effective,” he said.
“We’ll also make it a priority to reach out specifically to groups that have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, including people and communities of color.”
Baker called it an interim plan “that will probably change as more information becomes available.”
Massachusetts is among the states that has recently seen an uptick in COVID-19 cases. As of mid-last week, a total of 63 communities in the state, including Boston, were considered high risk for virus infections, up from 40 a week before. The designation is based on average daily cases per 100,000 residents, CBS Boston reported. High risk communities are those with over 8 cases per 100,000 residents during the last 14 days.
“While we continue to plan for distribution of a vaccine, we can’t take our eyes off the measures that we’ve been talking about for the last several months to keep people safe,” Baker said Tuesday.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said late last week that officials are now giving “special attention” to gatherings and house parties “that are putting other people at risk,” as the city sees a rise in coronavirus cases.
“We are tracing locations where house parties continue to happen,” Walsh said, adding they are working with Boston’s Inspectional Services department “to curtail these events.”
Roughly half of new cases in the city continue to be in people who are under 30, said Walsh, who advised people to “get on Zoom” and socialize digitally.
States finalizing their distribution plans
Pressure to create a coronavirus vaccine is increasing by the day, but for a safe vaccine to enter the market, it takes time.
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State public health departments say they’re ready to leap into action as soon as a COVID-19 vaccine is approved but caution so many things are still unknown that exactly what that leap looks like is hard to say right now.
For Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, it’s like planning an outdoor picnic for 1.3 million of his closest friends (the population of Maine) without knowing how much food he has, who’s coming, how he’s going to invite them and what they can and can’t eat.
“We plan for things we have knowledge around and move forward from there,” he said.
The good news is that the earliest date a vaccine is expected to arrive is now around Thanksgiving so that gives states a little breathing room. There had been the possibility that a vaccine could become available as soon as Nov. 1.
To get ready, in Maine the public health department is planning “down to the person,” Shah said. “We’re looking at how many miles our public health nurses may need to drive.”
On Friday state public health departments submitted vaccination distribution plans to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The plans were as detailed as they could be given the many things that are still unknown:
- When a vaccine or vaccines will become available.
- Which groups will be first in line to get it and who comes next.
- What kind of storage and refrigerator or freezer requirements they might have. At least one must be stored at -94°.
- For vaccines that require two doses (all but one), when the second dose must be administered.
- Information about whether a certain vaccine works or doesn’t work in specific populations such as the elderly, pregnant women or the young.
In a call with reporters Monday, public health officials talked about how they’re preparing and what they still need.
This involves hours and hours of meetings: Last week state health officials spent two hours meeting with Pfizer just about the packaging it has developed to keep the vaccine cold as it’s distributed and stored, said Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers.
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Maine’s Shah said he’s having multiple meetings every day and many at night to get ready for what will be one of the biggest public health pushes of the modern era.
The final plan for who gets COVID-19 vaccine first will come from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. That committee is standing ready to meet the day or the day after a vaccine is approved, Shah said.
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