The new program will invest in "accelerating things that are already in progress" for COVID-19 but also would work to come up with treatments for other viruses, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert.
The entity that resulted from the merger of Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care will officially be known as Point32Health, the insurers announced Wednesday.
Eight states have implemented or are developing the regulatory and data gathering infrastructure to track annual healthcare cost growth, and more are expected to follow suit.
Employees at a Kansas City hospital run by HCA voted to decertify their union. The SEIU said management intimidated workers during the election.
The 7-2 majority said the Republican-led states couldn't challenge the Affordable Care Act because they hadn't shown how they were injured.
The merger would create a $12 billion healthcare company operating 22 hospitals and 305 outpatient locations with more than 64,000 employees and 7,500 independent physicians, the largest healthcare footprint in Michigan.
While not all the data from its trial involving 40,000 participants in Latin America and Europe have been assessed yet, the company said interim results show the vaccine has an efficacy of 47% against COVID-19 disease of any severity.
At a meeting last week of an FDA advisory committee, vaccine experts suggested that the agency require the pharmaceutical companies to hold larger and longer clinical trials for the younger age groups. A few said FDA should hold off on authorizing vaccination of younger children for up to a year or two.
