After a start-of-the-year lull, activities at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are starting to pick up, according to BioSpace.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted for priority review a Biologics License Application (BLA) for Merck’s 15-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine V114.

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Merck & Co. will supply about 60,000-100,000 doses of the company’s experimental Covid-19 treatment to the U.S. government for up to about $356 million.

Warren Buffett, one of America’s best-known investors, is backing multiple pharmaceutical companies developing therapies aimed at curbing the ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic.