An inside look at Amazon Care's ambitions

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Today in healthcare news: Inside Amazon's ambitions to sell its Amazon Care service to other big companies, how one health system is using Dodge minivans to get its vaccine to rural healthcare workers, and the common side effects from Moderna's vaccine


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Amazon is quietly building a business to offer medical care to major companies. Here's an inside look at Amazon Care.

Read the full scoop from Blake Dodge here>>


Sanford Health courier van
Sioux Falls, SD-based Sanford Health's courier vans will carry COVID-19 vaccines to remote hospitals in the rural Midwest.

How one hospital system is relying on a fleet of Dodge minivans to make sure healthcare workers in remote areas can get their COVID shots

Read the full story from Shelby Livingston here>>


Moderna vaccine
In this Monday, July 27, 2020 file photo, a nurse prepares a shot as a study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., gets underway in Binghamton, N.Y.

Here are the common side effects you should expect if you get Moderna's coronavirus shot

  • More than nine in 10 people immunized with Moderna's coronavirus vaccine candidate registered some level of side effects.
  • These side effects were predominantly expected for any vaccine, mild or moderate in intensity, and lasted for one to three days, according to briefing documents released Tuesday by the US Food and Drug Administration. 
  • The FDA is now reviewing Moderna's application for emergency use authorization.

Read the full story from Andrew Dunn here>>


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