Infectious disease

Two investigational drugs have been taking the spotlight recently from Revive and Ascletis as they share news regarding their potential treatment against COVID-19.
Pharma giant Moderna has shared data on the development of a new bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine that performs better than its first booster that is currently on the market.
To cope, life sciences companies are undertaking a supply chain risk assessment, conducting make-or-buy assessments, investing in supply chain technology and identifying backup suppliers.
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.
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