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. 

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

• Amazon wants to run primary care for other large employers, Business Insider has learned.
• It plans to do that through Amazon Care, which is still in pilot mode and currently serves Amazon’s own workers.
• Through a mobile app, Care offers in-person and online doctor visits. When Amazon employees are sick, they can start an appointment on the app and be visited at home by a nurse.

Read the full scoop from Blake Dodge here>>

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

• Distributing COVID-19 vaccines to rural areas hit hard by the pandemic will be one of the many difficult challenges that states and health systems face in vaccinating Americans.
• Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based health system Sanford Health is planning to use a fleet of Dodge minivans to courier Pfizer vaccines to rural hospitals throughout the Midwest.
• Some states and health systems have decided against re-distributing Pfizer vaccines to rural hospitals. In those cases, rural hospitals will wait for the Moderna vaccine to be authorized.

Read the full story from Shelby Livingston here>>

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>>

More stories we're reading:

• No, there's no evidence Pfizer's vaccine causes infertility in women (USA Today)
• One chart shows how effective Moderna's vaccine is at preventing people from getting COVID-19 (Business Insider)
• Here's how many doses of vaccine each state needs to vaccinate every high-risk healthcare worker (Business Insider)
• Prue Leith of 'The Great British Baking Show' is the first celebrity to publicly get a COVID-19 vaccine (Insider)

- Lydia