Eli Lilly’s $4 Billion Vaccine Bet
The post Eli Lilly’s $4 Billion Vaccine Bet appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the spreading Ebola epidemic, the Midas list health investors, Lilly’s trio of vaccine deals, and more. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. Health workers leaving the isolation area at Congo’s General Referral Hospital during the Ebola outbreak response. Getty Images In less than two weeks since the Africa Center for Disease Control confirmed an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 220 people have been killed by the disease. The total number of people infected has now topped 1,000, and the disease has spread to neighboring Uganda. On Monday, the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the disease was spreading faster than response efforts, leaving public health workers “playing catch-up.” The outbreak could surpass the 2018-2020 one, which was the biggest on record and caused more than 2,290