Utah Senate Republican candidate Trent Staggs said during a debate on Monday that Rep. John Curtis (R-UT) purchased stock in Abbott Laboratories the “same day” the company was awarded a federal grant.
House Republicans are investigating the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) “failure to respond to the nationwide” baby-formula shortage last year.
Baby formula “production and distribution” at Abbott’s plant in Sturgis, Michigan, will likely be delayed “for a few weeks” after flooding Monday has led to setbacks, the company announced Tuesday.
Baby formula will reportedly be in short supply well into July, though Abbott resumed production at its Sturgis, Michigan, factory Saturday.
Data on the market supply of baby formula reveals the shortage is getting worse, especially in the south and southwest United States, with low-income families suffering most.
CLAIM: President Trump claimed during Tuesday night’s debate against Democrat nominee Joe Biden, that he “brought back football.”
Trump announced a plan to ship 150 million rapid point-of-care coronavirus tests to high-risk communities. “We’re down to something, that you’ll see, is really from a different planet,” Trump said.
Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, called for the development of fast, reliable, and affordable coronavirus testing technology at businesses in order to safely reopen the economy and give the public the peace of mind it needs to resume consumer activity.
Abbott Laboratories announced on Wednesday that it will ship one million coronavirus antibody blood tests this week.
