Rather than wait for a viable vaccine to stock up on syringes, the federal government is securing them now. To date, it has signed at least $260 million in contracts for their production.
As scientists race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, some experts warned that syringes could become the next face masks — coveted items in short supply able to plunge the market into chaos.the mad scramble for masks and other personal protective equipment that came to symbolize the early weeks of the pandemic.
A vaccine could be ready by early 2021, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee this week. But there's no guarantee, he warned.Dr.
In his report, Bright says that when he raised the issue to his superior, his boss told him they should worry about syringes when there was something to inject. In addition to anticipating a two-shot vaccine, Bright’s calculations included about 180 million more syringes for an increase in requests for flu shots. Powell, at Premier Group, said that makes sense.
“People have to be proactive in beginning to order and stockpile these devices now,” the CEO, Thomas Polen, said. “It cannot be ‘wait until the last minute’ and expect that those products will be able to be manufactured.”
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