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In a surprise move, HHS has awarded a new Virginia-based company a $354 million contract to produce active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and finished drugs to create a new Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Reserve. Read More
AstraZeneca will manufacture up to 30 million doses of Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine by September if trials show it to be effective — and 100 million doses for global deployment by year’s end, the UK’s Secretary of State for Business Alok Sharma has announced. Read More
To make remdesivir available to COVID-19 patients in low-income nations, Gilead Sciences has signed non-exclusive licensing agreements with five generic drugmakers to allow them to manufacture and sell the antiviral. Read More
About 28 million doses of hydroxychloroquine were distributed from the Strategic National Stockpile last month and states are wondering what to do with their excess supply since studies have cast doubt on the drug’s benefit as a COVID-19 treatment. Read More
Famotidine, a heartburn medicine better known as Pepcid, has been added to the FDA’s drug shortage list shortly after it became known that the drug is being tested as a COVID-19 treatment. Read More
Two lawmakers are pressing Jaguar Health to reverse the three-fold price hike on its diarrhea drug Mytesi (crofelemer) that has been considered as a possible COVID-19 treatment. Read More