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Efficiencies and upgrades in the production process have helped vaccine maker Pfizer double its output of coronavirus vaccine in the past month, a spokeswoman for the company told CNN Monday. ....
FDA authorizes new Eli Lilly monoclonal antibody duo From CNN Health’s Maggie Fox In this file photo, an employee at Eli Lilly works on an antibody treatment for Covid-19. Source: Eli Lilly The US Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization to a new version of Eli Lilly and Co’s antibody treatment for coronavirus that adds a second monoclonal antibody to one already authorized, the company said Tuesday. The new treatment adds etesevimab or LY-CoV016 to the already authorized bamlanivimab or LY-CoV555 to make a double-antibody version – one that might be more protective, the company says. Rival Regeneron has a dual antibody-cocktail on the market already. ....
Germany edges closer to coronavirus goal but variants pose a new threat From CNN s Claudia Otto in Berlin A medical assistant prepares a rapid antigen Covid-19 test at the Koeln Messe trade fair grounds on February 8 in Cologne, Germany. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Germany s seven-day Covid-19 case incidence rate has dropped below 100 for the first time in three months, according to its infectious disease agency a key metric in the country s fight against the pandemic. That means in the past week, the Robert Koch Institute only reported 72.8 infections per 100,000 residents. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has consistently told the public the goal is to push infections under the rate of 50 cases per 100,000 residents, in order to start reopening the country. ....
An FDA committee is meeting today to consider Moderna s Covid-19 vaccine A nurse in Binghamton, New York, gives a volunteer an injection as a study for a possible Covid-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna, gets underway on July 27. Hans Pennink/AP The US Food and Drug Administration s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will hold a virtual meeting today to consider emergency use authorization of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. That meeting was set to begin at 9 a.m. ET. The FDA has already telegraphed that a quick emergency use authorization can be expected and this one could go through even faster than the EUA for Pfizer last week – itself a speedy process. ....