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Coronavirus tracker: Alexion launches trial; Lilly, BMS extend help; Trump offers to treat British PM

April 7, 2020
Life sciences

Two biopharmas, Alexion Pharmaceuticals and Karyopharm, are trialing possible treatments while Eli Lilly and Bristol Myers Squibb are offering to help the unemployed stay on their meds.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump offered U.K. Prime MInister Boris Johnson, in the ICU with COVID-19, unproven treatments. And news emerged that Trump himself holds a small financial interest in Sanofi, which makes an off-patent brand of hydroxychloroquine.

India is reportedly retracting export bans on 13 active pharmaceutical ingredients and finished formulations, and hydroxychloroquine may be included.

As of Tuesday, the number of global confirmed cases had surpassed 1.36 million, according to Johns Hopkins University’s real-time dashboard, and nearly 76,000 people had died.

See all of FiercePharma’s COVID-19 coverage here

By Eric Sagonowsky, Kyle Blankenship, Angus Liu, Conor Hale

Source: Fierce Pharma

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