Puritan Lands $147M DOD Contract to Expand COVID-19 Test Swab Production

The Department of Health and Human Services has announced more than $500 million in awards to support companies as they move their vaccine candidates to Phase 2b clinical trials and further develop new technologies as part of Project NextGen. Project NextGen is a $5 billion government initiative that seeks to speed up the development of

The Department of Health and Human Services is investing more than $1.4 billion in developing next-generation vaccines and therapeutics against COVID-19. The funds are part of the government’s $5 billion Project NextGen initiative to enable the rapid development of longer-lasting COVID-19 vaccines, a new antibody therapy and technologies to advance vaccine manufacturing processes, HHS said

Karen Hay, digital transformation leader of global public health at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said government agencies looking to expand access to health care services and mitigate public health challenges should advance digitization. “Digitization helps health workforce challenges as well as addressing the service backlog and supporting expanded access,” Hay wrote in an article published on