STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: J&J to supply U.S. with 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses; Feds seek $18 billion from Purdue in opioid probe

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The National Institutes of Health is launching studies of monoclonal antibodies in patients with mild to moderate Covid-19, CNBC tells us. The trials re part of a government-industry collaboration known as ACTIV, for Accelerating Covid-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines, and will look an experimental Eli Lilly (LLY) treatment that is being developed with AbCellera. Earlier this week, the company began a Phase 3 trial testing whether the treatment can prevent the spread of Covid-19 in nursing home residents and staff.

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