
Coronavirus Update: Pfizer and Moderna announce moves to help get vital COVID medicines to low-income countries, and Arkansas joins U.S. states expanding booster program to all adults
Pfizer and Moderna announced moves early Tuesday that will support the effort to get vital medicines to lower-income countries to help them battle COVID-19, securing supplies of the former’s antiviral treatment and the latter’s vaccine.
Pfizer has signed a voluntary license agreement with United Nations–backed public health organization the Medicines Patent Pool that will allow generics makers to manufacture its COVID-19 oral antiviral treatment, once it is authorized. The move will allow other drug makers to supply the antiviral…