It’s Raining EUAs: US FDA Drops Slew Of EUAs In Response To COVID-19

13 Apr 2020

While US regulators have ramped up the number of authorizations they’ve granted to companies on an emergency basis in response to the COVID-19 crisis, they really kicked things into high gear in just the past few days. On 10 April the agency issued a record number of EUAs in response to the pandemic.

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The US Food and Drug Administration has doled out 27 emergency use authorizations (EUA) since the start of the month, and eight of those have been since 10 April. While there are indications social distancing may have helped stem the COVID-19 mortality rate in the US, the agency does not seem to be slowing down its efforts to get more products on the market to tackle the crisis.

On 10 April the FDA handed out a record six EUAs, the highest number since the start of the coronavirus...