Covid-19 roundup: Pfiz­er li­cens­es its pill to the Med­i­cines Patent Pool; NYC joins states in au­tho­riz­ing boost­ers for all adults ahead of FDA

Fol­low­ing a sim­i­lar deal forged by Mer­ck for its Covid-19 drug mol­nupi­ravir, Pfiz­er on Tues­day agreed to al­low the UN-backed Med­i­cines Patent Pool to li­cense the com­pa­ny’s po­ten­tial treat­ment Paxlovid to make it more read­i­ly avail­able in 95 low- and mid­dle-in­come coun­tries.

The agree­ment al­lows MPP to grant sub-li­cens­es to qual­i­fied gener­ic drug man­u­fac­tur­ers to fa­cil­i­tate ad­di­tion­al pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion­al an­tivi­ral, which has yet to be au­tho­rized.

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