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Takeda/CSL-Led Alliance’s COVID-19 Plasma Therapy Fails in PIII
The CoVIg-19 Plasma Alliance, co-founded by Takeda Pharmaceutical and CSL Behring, said on April 2 that its investigational anti-coronavirus hyperimmune intravenous immunoglobulin (H-Ig) missed the primary endpoint in a PIII study. No serious safety concerns were identified. The study, dubbed…
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