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U.S. Govt. Purchases 100k Doses of Lilly’s COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail

Purchase agreement is for $210 million and doses of bamlanivimab and etesevimab will be delivered through March 31, 2021.

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By: Kristin Brooks

Managing Editor, Contract Pharma

The U.S. government will purchase a minimum of 100,000 doses of Lilly’s bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) 700 mg and etesevimab (LY-CoV016) 1400 mg together. Bamlanivimab and etesevimab recently received emergency use authorization for the treatment of recently diagnosed, mild to moderate COVID-19 in patients who are at high risk of progressing to severe COVID-19 and/or hospitalization. Additionally, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently updated the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines to recommen...

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