BSMA Posts
Guiding Principles for Safe and Efficacious COVID-19 Vaccine Development, Distribution, Allocation, and Mass Immunization
Article from: Pharmaceutical Supply and Payment Chain Coalition Washington, D.C. (October 22, 2020) — Today, representative organizations of America’s pharmaceutical supply and payment chain, including prescription and over-the-counter brand and generic...
VIRTUAL AUDIT: A POSITIVE OUTCOME OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Submitted by Devendra Mishra, Executive Director, BSMA, 10/08/2020 The belief that necessity is the mother of invention has been reaffirmed with the FDA conducting Virtual Audits of drug manufacturers in a widespread stay-at-home ordinance across the nation....
WILL GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN COME TO THE RESCUE IN THE WAR ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC?
Submitted by Devendra Mishra, Executive Director, BSMA, 09022020 The General Assembly of the United Nations on September 11 reaffirmed that international cooperation, multilateralism and solidarity as the only way for the world to effectively respond to global crisis...
THE DEVIL IS INVISIBLE IN THE COLD CHAIN LINKS OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN OF COVID-19 VACCINES
Submitted by Devendra Mishra, Executive Director, BSMA 09252020 Developing an effective vaccine is the first step in the war on the Coronavirus pandemic. Then comes the question of how to deliver hundreds of millions of doses that will be required to be kept at...
THE STORM BEFORE THE CALM OF COVID-19 VACCINATION DISTRIBUTION
Submitted by Devendra Mishra, Executive Director, BSMA, 09182020 The formidable task of distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines when they are approved continues to be plagued by lack of a national policy for its administration, compromise of the FDA...
VACCINE MANUFACTURING TO MAP THE DISTRIBUTION NETWORK
Submitted by Devendra Mishra, Executive Director, BSMA The uncertainty of FDA approval of vaccines for COVID-19 does not have to impede the planning required for empowering the distribution network. Operation Warp Speed is facilitating, at an unprecedented pace,...