How Google spinoff Cityblock built a $1 billion business

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Today in healthcare news: Inside Cityblock's meteoric rise, Biden's pandemic plans, and Amazon wants to help the Biden administration vaccinate Americans.

Inside Cityblock's meteoric rise: How a Google spinoff built a $1 billion business and convinced Silicon Valley to bet on healthcare for the sickest patients

• Cityblock Health in December reached a $1 billion valuation and is on track to earn $1 billion in revenue.
• The startup cares for Medicaid patients and those eligible for multiple kinds of federal assistance.
• Despite its mission to care for folks left behind by our economic system, Cityblock is backed by some of the world's richest venture capital firms.

Read the full story from Blake Dodge here>>

How Biden plans to fight the pandemic: 100 million shots, large-scale vaccination sites, and the reopening of K-8 schools

• President Joe Biden issued three coronavirus-related executive orders on his first day in office.
• The orders aim to increase mask-wearing, accelerate vaccine distribution, and rejoin WHO.
• Over 100 days, Biden plans to reopen most K-8 schools and administer at least 100 million shots.

Read the full story from Aria Bendix here>>

One of Amazon's top execs wrote a letter to Biden offering to help with his pledge to vaccinate 100 million Americans in his first 100 days

• Amazon exec Dave Clark is offering to help President Joe Biden with the vaccination effort.
• Clark touted Amazon's logistics, communications, and IT expertise in a letter to Biden.
• Clark also asked that Amazon's essential workers receive the vaccine at the "earliest appropriate time."

Read the full story from Avery Hartmans here>>

More stories we're reading:

• The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine works against the contagious virus variant first found in UK, a new study shows (Business Insider)
• More than 16,000 doses may have been spoiled in Maine and Michigan because of temperature problems (Washington Post)
• Fauci says serving in the Trump administration was 'somewhat awkward' (Business Insider)
• Dr. Robert Redfield speaks to The New York Times about navigating a pandemic under the Trump administration (The New York Times)
• How Moderna is working with Dell's Boomi to become more efficient as it races to distribute its COVID-19 vaccine (Business Insider)

- Lydia