Manufacturers in the past haven't paid much heed to health plans' half-hearted efforts to reign in biotech drug spending. They figure if the drug is good enough, payers have to cover it. But health plans are for the first time serious about managing specialty pharma spending. Manufacturers should take heed because the impact on their revenues and marketing strategies could be significant.

Pricing set somewhere down the middle as Moderna reaches deal with US government on initial supplies of its mRNA vaccine. Also, Evidence Accelerator's next joint parallel analysis projects are remdesivir in hospitalized patients and coagulopathy.

House Democrats criticized the administration’s response to the pandemic in a new report. See what Rep. James Clyburn, chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, said about it here.