Covid-19 roundup: Af­ter bat­ting back at vac­cine sup­pli­er, In­ovio lines up a gi­ant in its cor­ner; Ox­ford spin­out Spy­Biotech be­gins PhI/II dos­ing for VLP-based vac­cine

In­ovio an­nounced Tues­day morn­ing that man­u­fac­tur­ing gi­ant Ther­mo Fish­er has signed on to make their Covid-19 vac­cine INO-4800 in 2021. The biotech — which has yet to get an OK on a vac­cine af­ter more than 40 years of op­er­a­tions — ex­pects to be able to dis­trib­ute 100 mil­lion dos­es to help end the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, but first it has to get around a re­cal­ci­trant man­u­fac­tur­er that con­trols much of the IP used to make the biotech’s vac­cines.

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