Vaccinations

Why the U.S. needs to expand its domestic public health supply chain Expanding the domestic supply chain for public health materials will strengthen national security and improve the U.S. economy. Patrick Skerrett STAT

One of the many hard lessons learned from Covid-19 has been that a robust and resilient domestic public health industrial base is essential to the health and security of the United States.

Holes in reporting of breakthrough Covid cases hamper CDC response The agency originally tried to track all infections in vaccinated people, from mild to severe. But in May it decided to focus on the most severe cases. Erin Banco POLITICO

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is using outdated and unreliable data on coronavirus breakthrough infections to help make major decisions, such as who gets booster shots, according to three officials with direct knowledge of the situation.

'Hell no': Some police officers and their unions oppose vaccination mandates New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said that he is "100 percent" behind a vaccination requirement and that a mandate should come from the state or federal levels. NBC News

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Police unions in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Seattle; and Syracuse, New York, have pushed back against vaccination requirements, as has the union representing state police in Massachusetts.

WHO begins shipping Chinese vaccines despite some misgivings By Francesco Guarascio, Alexander Winning and Stanley Widianto Francesco Guarascio, Alexander Winning, Stanley Widianto U.S.

BRUSSELS/JOHANNESBURG/JAKARTA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization’s pandemic programme plans to ship 100 million doses of the Sinovac and Sinopharm COVID-19 shots by the end of next month, mostly to Africa and Asia, in its first delivery of Chinese vaccines, a WHO document shows.