Covid-19 roundup: $71M from DoD to In­ovio; Pigs pro­vide clues on Ox­ford vac­cine; Google lends su­per­com­put­ing to an­tivi­ral hunt

In­ovio is locked in a le­gal stand­off with its con­tract man­u­fac­tur­er pre­vent­ing it from scal­ing up their vac­cine, but that hasn’t stopped the De­part­ment of De­fense from back­ing their tech­nol­o­gy.

On Tues­day, the DoD gave In­ovio a $71 mil­lion con­tract to scale up man­u­fac­tur­ing of the Cel­lec­tra de­vices that ac­com­pa­ny their vac­cines. It’s the sec­ond con­tract for a Covid-19 man­u­fac­tur­er DoD has signed this month, af­ter a $60 mil­lion deal with No­vavax on June 4. Both tranch­es came af­ter the biotechs were left off the re­port­ed list of fi­nal­ists for Trump’s Op­er­a­tion Warp Speed, al­though not every name on that list is known.

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