Listen: Pharma blockbusters, pandemic policy, & legal chicanery

Is the next Lipitor on the way? When is a pandemic over-over? And what’s a Texas two-step?

We cover all that and more this week on “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast. STAT Washington correspondent Rachel Cohrs joins us to explain the looming end of Covid-19’s status as a federal emergency and what that does and doesn’t mean for public health. We also dig into the most interesting stories from a busy week of pharmaceutical earnings and discuss a legal setback for Johnson & Johnson.

For more on what we cover, here’s more on the emergency declaration; here’s the news on J&J; here’s where you can find episodes of Color Code; and here’s where you can subscribe to the First Opinion Podcast.

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