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Merck, Johnson & Johnson to strike 'wartime' COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing deal: WaPo

Merck & Co., a leading vaccine player worldwide, has been largely absent during the COVID-19 vaccine race. Not anymore: The drugmaker is set to partner with Johnson & Johnson to boost production of its newly authorized shot, The Washington Post reports.

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Congress to investigate One Medical's vaccination practices: report

Congress is launching an investigation into concierge healthcare provider One Medical following allegations that the company has been administering COVID-19 vaccinations to ineligible patients.

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FDA greenlights home COVID-19 testing kits from Quidel, Eurofins

After one year and hundreds of individual diagnostic authorizations for COVID-19, the FDA is now greenlighting more tests that can be performed or started at home, and on a much broader scale.

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Novavax targets May approval for COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.

Novavax is targeting a second-quarter FDA filing for emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine. The goal suggests the U.S. could join the U.K. on the list of countries to authorize the vaccine in the first half of the year.

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COVID-19 tracker: Supply-starved EU countries look elsewhere for vaccines

The EU is showing cracks as some supply-starved countries are going outside the bloc to secure COVID-19 vaccines. Johnson & Johnson has teamed with Merck & Co. in a "wartime" alliance to supply vaccines. The FDA has endorsed at-home COVID-19 testing kits from Quidel and Eurofins. Promising results emerge for Cerecor's antibody med.

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AMA, ANA call for improved efforts to collect race, ethnicity data on COVID-19 vaccinations

Major healthcare groups are calling for the industry to redouble efforts to collect and report race and ethnicity data when administering COVID-19 vaccinations.

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Blue Cross NC saw $200M in COVID-related claims last year

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina saw $200 million in claims related to COVID-19 last year, the insurer said during a briefing Tuesday.

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Little Cerecor sees shares jump on COVID-19 readout, seeks EUA though margins of success are thin

Cerecor, which has a market cap of less than $400 million and some small, low-key raises and pacts over the years, saw its shares bounce around 15% premarket this morning on new phase 2 data for its experimental COVID-19 drug.

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