Biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has received more than $1 billion in funding from BARDA for the development, production and delivery of Oxford University's vaccine for COVID-19.
Understood as a virtual army in the war against COVID-19, AI has vast stockpiles of potential weaponry with which to wage many a battle. That’s the good news.
Testing all residents and staff at the nation’s nursing homes just once would collectively cost $440 million, according to data from the American Health Care Association and National Center of Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL).
COVID-19 isn’t only keeping patients home when they should be seeing their doctors. It’s also keeping clinical investigators from moving ahead with their research.
Hospitals and healthcare providers are facing higher costs to care for complex COVID-19 patients while also suffering the loss of other procedures like elective surgeries that could help offset these higher costs.