Medical device companies – including Sientra, Endologix and Invacare – won loans from the US government’s Paycheck Protection Program, intended to protect jobs during the coronavirus pandemic. In total, nearly 1,400 device makers collected as much as $1.6bn, according to a Medtech Insight analysis of PPP data.

In a potential game-changer in the ongoing fight to expand COVID-19 testing, the FDA has authorized a new kind of test that can be used by certain health care providers on-site to diagnose patients with the SARS-CoV-2 virus within minutes instead of days.

AmerisourceBergen, McKesson, Cardinal and others can help FEMA deliver hydroxychloroquine and manage critical-drugs supply chain without running afoul of federal antitrust law.

Medical supplies manufacturers can collaborate to address the novel coronavirus pandemic without violating antitrust law, the US Department of Justice has said.