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Japan's Takeda in push to debut COVID-19 treatment this year
NEW YORK – Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical is aiming to roll out an antibody treatment for COVID-19 as early as this year, as it joins global big pharma's pledge to rise to the occasion amid a global pandemic. "We believe that within nine to 18 months we could have a product that has real potential to treat the most critically ill patients," Rajeev Venkayya, president of Takeda's global vaccine business unit, said Thursday.
Takeda's experimental treatment – a concentration of antibodies taken from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 – is part of a concerted effort to search for effective treatment and vaccines against the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19 and has infected over 240,000 worldwide, killing nearly 10,000. More than 80 clinical trials are underway to test new and existing medicines, according to the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations.
Companies are developing medication targeting the coronavirus "at light speed," Venkayya said at a Thursday news briefing with IFPMA, which also featured executives from Eli Lilly, Roche, Sanofi Pasteur and Johnson & Johnson. The group issued a statement the same day, promising to "share tools and insights" to test potential therapies and vaccines, and to scale up diagnostics for testing.
The multinational drugmakers' efforts will be supported by an expedited regulatory process in the U.S. On Thursday, American President Donald Trump ordered the Food and Drug Administration to fast-track coronavirus drugs and vaccines to meet the pressing need.
"We have to remove every barrier or a lot of barriers that were unnecessary, and they've done that to get the rapid deployment of safe, effective treatments," Trump said at a White House briefing.
Takeda is the largest life sciences employer in Cambridge, Massachusetts – the U.S. biotech capital – following its acquisition of Shire last year.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Pharmaceuticals/Japan-s-Takeda-in-push-to-debut-COVID-19-treatment-this-year
from May 2016
Takeda Receives $38 Million Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Support Polio Eradication in Developing Countries
Osaka, Japan, May 9, 2016 – Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited [TSE: 4502], (“Takeda”) today announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support global polio eradication in developing countries. With this funding, Takeda will develop, license and supply at least 50 million doses per year of Sabin-strain inactivated poliovirus vaccine (sIPV) to more than 70 developing countries. The vaccine will be manufactured at Takeda’s facility in Hikari, Japan. This effort is aligned with Takeda’s strategy to utilize innovation and partnerships to address critical unmet needs in global public health, and the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in September 2015.
https://www.takeda.com/newsroom/newsreleases/2016/takeda-receives-$38-million-grant-from-the-bill–melinda-gates-foundation-to-support-polio-eradication-in-developing-countries/
NATO NAG02 and 03 E-3A Sentry AWACS from Nellis AFB. Was one before now 2.
same here transponder was "on" while it was parked at Boeing Filed since Sunday.
Since the system cannot get rates back up POTUS is blowing this bitch up as lower rates kills it off. They did not get the event they always need to raise interest rates so the lower rates go the moar exposed all that paper becomes. Put it on steroids and blow it up with a wash of cheap, easy money. This one time it's for our benefit. in the process it will expose them for what they do as to say they need an event every 10 years or so to lower rates ..produce a "crisis" and then raise them. At the same time the system buys up assets as it drops so they are positioned to benefit as it regains the lost ground.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
It's his plane. What else do you need?
The tail number matches.
From Seattle to Coachella Valley- Cochrane Airport
today.
Can't say why. It was "turned on" the entire time it sat in seattle and there is really no reason to do that once parked. At first it displayed the hours of last report, then it went to n/a and yesterday it showed last report was 73 hours.