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Divergent Progress For Chinese Developers Of COVID Antivirals, Vaccines

Factors Include Demand, New Strains

 
• By Dexter Jie Yan

Some of China's makers of COVID-19 antivirals are fast-tracking neutralizing antibodies and peptide fusion inhibitors in clinical trials, while vaccine developers are embroiled in a tougher situation against the mutating coronavirus.

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Chinese developers of COVID antivirals and vaccines trying hard to tackle mutating coronavirus • Source: Nielsen Hobbs; the Pink Sheet | Shutterstock images

Chinese developers of COVID-19 antivirals and vaccines are diverging on whether to stay in the game, underscored by mixed first-half progress against the mutating SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The Omicron subvariant EG.5 had become the dominant strain in China, accounting for 71

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