U.S. states need to "rally together" to maintain safety measures like social distancing and mask-wearing even as the federal government helps ramp up the production and delivery of vaccines, the White House said on Wednesday.

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Merck will dedicate two facilities to making the newly authorized J&J vaccine.

US president invokes wartime law to require Merck & Co to help produce newly approved Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine.

With the bolstered supply, Mr. Biden also announced he would be using the powers of the federal government to direct all states to prioritize vaccinating teachers.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday said the United States was on track to have enough vaccines for every adult in the country by the end of May.

President Joe Biden will announce on Tuesday a major partnership between Merck & Co and Johnson & Johnson to produce the single-shot COVID-19 vaccine.

Biden is expected to announce a partnership between competitors Johnson & Johnson and Merck.

President Biden will announce Tuesday that pharmaceutical giant Merck will help Johnson & Johnson manufacture its newly authorized coronavirus vaccine to boost supply, a senior administration official tells Axios. The big picture: The development has the pote…

President Joe Biden will announce Tuesday that Merck & Co. will help manufacture Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot coronavirus vaccine.

Germany's Merck KGgA said on Monday it has agreed to pay Swiss biotech Debiopharm up to 900 million euros ($1.08 billion) to develop and commercialise Xevinapant for head and neck cancer.

Merck & Co said on Thursday that U.S. regulators have asked for additional data beyond the Phase III study already conducted in order to support potential emergency use authorization of its experimental COVID-19 drug MK-7110.

Merck & Co said on Thursday that U.S. regulators have asked for additional data beyond the Phase III study already conducted in order to support potential emergency use authorization of its experimental COVID-19 drug MK-7110.

Merck & Co Inc said on Thursday it would buy drug developer Pandion Therapeutics Inc for $1.85 billion, to expand its portfolio of drugs that target autoimmune diseases. (Reporting by Manas Mishra in Bengaluru; Editing by Ramakrishnan M.)

Germany wants to set up a special task force to help boost investment in vaccine production and build up reserve capacity for the next pandemic so it can become a supplier to the world, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday.

Berkshire Hathaway invested $8.6 billion in Verizon stock through the quarter that ended December 31.

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Guinea has officially declared it has an Ebola epidemic after at least three people have died in the West African nation.

Health officials in Guinea on Sunday confirmed that at least three people have died from Ebola there, the first cases declared since it was one of three West African nations to fight the world’s deadliest Ebola epidemic that ended five years ago.

These are the first cases in West Africa, five years after the end of the world's deadliest outbreak.

Australia's second-most populous state of Victoria will be placed under a five-day lockdown until Wednesday, state Premier Daniel Andrews said on Friday, after a cluster linked to a quarantine hotel in Melbourne reached 13 cases.

* Commercial quantities to be produced as early as H2 (Adds details, background)

Merck & Co Inc is in talks with governments and companies to potentially help with manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines that have been already authorized, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Hipgnosis Songs Fund said on Friday it had raised 75 million pounds ($102.95 million) through a share sale, as the investment firm seeks to cash in on the explosion of online music streaming during the COVID-19 pandemic.

UPDATE 1-Germany's Merck boosts BioNTech lipid supply amid vaccine shortages  Reuters

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NEW via @taylorgiorno_: The five largest U.S. Big Pharma companies — including @EliLillyandCo, @JNJNews, and @Merck — are attacking efforts to lower drug prices for American seniors after reporting earnings of $81.9 BILLION. https://t.co/EjPsMEFqY1

RT @CynicalNews: This news is clear confirmation of the financial interests of big pharma. Negotiations with a single payer would benefit s…

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RT @statnews: Seven of the world’s largest drugmakers urged dozens of their suppliers to outline targets they expect them to reach over the…

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Crescendo Raises $32M, Adds Immunotherapy Combination Cohort to Phase I Prostate Cancer Trial. In the expansion cohort, patients with PSMA-positive prostate cancer will receive a combination of trispecific antibody CB307 and Merck's Keytruda. https://t.co/ys8Pghixwh

Would've been great to see Cavendish get the record, and I was absolutely roaring at the TV for him yesterday. But there's also a wee bit of me that's okay with Merck's tally not being bettered #TDF2023

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RT @weaponizedword1: @Jikkyleaks Remember when Merck created an entirely fake medical journal for Vioxx?

RT @ZyroFoxtrot: Merck developer admits vaccines contain hidden cancer viruses derived from diseased monkeys September 8, 2013 #SV40 #Can…

RT @GPR109A: Wait till you see what @Merck knows about the connection of these three with malaria since the 1940s too... Here's a sneak pee…

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RT @A_Luckmann: Thinking about Roche Dinkeloo’s Merck World Headquarters https://t.co/bzwd158MjK

RT @weaponizedword1: @Jikkyleaks Head of Gardasil development Eliav Barr….was involved with Vioxx…. https://t.co/Wi0biFZ2bz https://t.co/L…

RT @weaponizedword1: @Jikkyleaks Head of Gardasil development Eliav Barr….was involved with Vioxx…. https://t.co/Wi0biFZ2bz https://t.co/L…

RT @A_Luckmann: Thinking about Roche Dinkeloo’s Merck World Headquarters https://t.co/bzwd158MjK

RT @weaponizedword1: @Jikkyleaks Head of Gardasil development Eliav Barr….was involved with Vioxx…. https://t.co/Wi0biFZ2bz https://t.co/L…

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Big Pharma Monsanto and Merck get away with whacking hundreds of thousands to death, but if you are a doctor or a patient? And they still profited billions after the lawsuit settlement. Your gov is trash! https://t.co/WQUCx9ziMG

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RT @A_Luckmann: Thinking about Roche Dinkeloo’s Merck World Headquarters https://t.co/bzwd158MjK

RT @ZyroFoxtrot: Merck developer admits vaccines contain hidden cancer viruses derived from diseased monkeys September 8, 2013 #SV40 #Can…

RT @Jjulian6412: @Jikkyleaks The term 'pharmafia' has never been more pertinent.... https://t.co/183jeP11En

Large cap drug manufacturers with the highest operating margins: 35.8% $PFE Pfizer 35.0% $AMGN Amgen 32.7% $GILD Gilead 32.4% $ZTS Zoetis 28.8% $MRK Merck 28.5% $ABBV AbbVie 26.0% $SNY Sanofi 24.4% $BIIB Biogen 23.2% $RDY Dr. Reddy's 22.7% $BMY B.M. Squibb 22.5% $LLY Eli Lilly

A son died, his parents tried to sue. How U.S. courts protect Big Pharma https://t.co/2vs526lhMB via @SpecialReports

Can Gilead And Merck Capitalize On AstraZeneca/Daiichi Sankyo’s TROP2 Safety Concerns? https://t.co/wbeXO25gJK #PharmaScrip

RT @luckytran: What motivates antivaxxers? Their harmful grift is extremely profitable. RFK Jr earned $1.5M from suing Merck over their HP…

RT @thackerpd: Merck’s best-selling asthma medicine, Singulair, has been linked for years to suicides and psychiatric problems. But lawsuit…

RT @angelosgeo: Biotech founders/CEOs, there's always someone willing to bet on you... "The first deal we did was with Merck in 2003. That…

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"The CEO's job is to be a compass, not a GPS." Ken Frazier.- Former CEO and executive chairman, Merck.