$5.2 billion for research and development related to vaccines or therapeutics.
Some of that money could also go to manufacturing and production, but the bill doesn t specify how much.
The bill s text focuses on COVID-19 but would also allow the agency to use the funds for other diseases.
The Food and Drug Administration would receive
$500 million. Part of that money would go toward facilitating COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing, inspecting manufacturers producing vaccines or therapeutics, and oversight of the supply chain.
Part of the supply chain oversight would include mitigating drug shortages, which has been a major problem during the pandemic.
Bottom line: The final text of the stimulus bill is far from settled, butits approval by the House sets the stage for massive government investment in the health care supply chain.
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Brownlee Currey entered the
Nashville Banner newsroom en route to his office with the quick-striding yet delicate confidence of an expert tennis player sizing up a drop shot at the net. In the last days of the old-time newspaper milieu of shouted commands, strong black coffee, cigarette-smoke haze and whiskey bottles hidden deep in desk drawers, Brownlee wore dapper custom suits and invariably had a smile on his face. Smiling! And we’re on deadline!
Brownlee O. Currey Jr. who died this year at age 91, followed several months later by the passing of his beloved wife Agneta didn’t fit the mold of chairman and co-owner of an aggressive afternoon city daily. Brownlee kept a New York Stock Exchange ticker machine in his office, and he often checked the paper tape spewing from it. He came from old Nashville money and added to the family fortune, thanks in part to millions reaped from the