The FDA's expert panel backs Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccines for younger kids
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- An expert panel recommended the FDA authorize Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids 5 to 11 years old;
- A serial biotech entrepreneur explains why he's taking on his own industry;
- A group of companies got fed up with drug-industry middlemen, so it came up with its own solution.
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Students, some wearing protective masks, arrive for the first day of school at Sessums Elementary School in Riverview, Fla.
AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File
AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File
The FDA's expert panel just gave a thumbs-up for Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in younger children, clearing the path for authorization in a matter of days
- An FDA panel voted Tuesday in support of using Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in younger kids.
- Five- to 11-year-old children could get the shot in early November, if the FDA and CDC sign off.
- Pfizer is applying to use a lower-strength dose in this younger age group.
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Why serial biotech entrepreneur Alexis Borisy wants to stop the 'great big party' on drug pricing and take on his own industry
- Alexis Borisy has helped launch more than a dozen biotechs, but EQRx might be his most ambitious.
- Borisy told Insider why he's now challenging the industry's "great big party" of drug pricing.
- EQRx plans to raise up to $1.8 billion by going public through a SPAC before the end of 2021.
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A group backed by huge employers like Boeing and Walmart is fed up with the ways drug-industry middlemen drum up profits. So it created its own alternative to lower drug costs.
- Employers are fed up with the secretive ways drug-industry middlemen drum up profits.
- So one employer group created a pharmacy-benefit manager that promises a clear view into drug costs.
- The new PBM will have to compete in an industry dominated by three massive companies.
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- Lydia
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