Covid-19 roundup: As­traZeneca's Farx­i­ga fails PhI­II test; Sup­ply deal for Eli Lil­ly's so­lo bam­lanivimab of­fi­cial­ly can­celed

Around the same time As­traZeneca struck up a vac­cine part­ner­ship with Ox­ford last April, the phar­ma gi­ant al­so put to­geth­er a game plan to de­vel­op treat­ments — both new and re­pur­posed — for Covid-19. One of them has now end­ed in fail­ure.

The Phase III DARE-19 tri­al re­cruit­ed 1,250 pa­tients hos­pi­tal­ized with Covid-19 over the past year and gave half of them the di­a­betes drug Farx­i­ga on top of stan­dard of care ther­a­py.

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