Covid-19 roundup: Can Ab­b­Vie’s dis­ap­point­ing NASH drug ceni­crivi­roc find suc­cess fight­ing cy­tokine storms?; Trump al­ly Chris Christie says he re­ceived Lil­ly's an­ti­body cock­tail

Af­ter get­ting passed down the line to Ab­b­Vie through a cou­ple of biotech buy­outs, the phar­ma gi­ant is now in line to see if their drug ceni­crivi­roc can score a suc­cess in the glob­al war against Covid-19.

The NIH has se­lect­ed this drug — which has proven un­der­whelm­ing as a NASH-tar­get­ed ther­a­py — as one of 3 it will test in a new adap­tive study dubbed AC­TIV-1 Im­mune Mod­u­la­tors, which is look­ing for new ways to fight off the cy­tokine storms that kill some pa­tients.

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