COVID-19

Ocugen has amended its co-development, supply and commercialization deal with Bharat to include Mexico and now holds the rights for the Covaxin vaccine for all of North America.
The Chinese government has halted the recommendation of Lianhua Qingwen used as a traditional Chinese treatment for mild cases of COVID-19.
There are very few ongoing clinical trials on treatments for Long COVID and there has been what appears to be a successful treatment using Pfizer’s Paxlovid. Read on for more details.
It was a very busy week for clinical trial news, with much of it coming out of the American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting. Read on for details.
FDA
The U.S.Food and Drug Administration has granted Emergency Use Authorization to a breathalyzer that can detect COVID-19 within three minutes.
Regeneron announced that the U.S. FDA has extended its review of the BLA for monoclonal antibody REGEN-COV, which treats COVID-19.
Pfizer and BioNTech will submit updated data to the FDA to support the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of COVID-19 vaccination boosters in children between the age of 5 and 11.
Reports that myopericarditis may be a side effect of COVID-19 vaccination are downplayed by a recently published study that suggests there might not be a correlation.
As the world speculates the potential impact of the novel COVID-19 variant omicron XE and subvariant BA.2, research continues to shed light on the impact and future of the pandemic.
Veru posted positive interim Phase III data from its late-stage study assessing oral antiviral sabizabulin in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Here’s more about it.
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