Merck (MRK) said it anticipates a commercial opportunity surpassing $5B from Cidara’s (CDTX) experimental flu drug, and does not expect it to require a review by the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel before launch, Reuters’ Mariam Sunny and Michael Erman report. “I would not say that our view of what is happening around vaccinations has in any way affected either our view of vaccinations or what drove us to this (drug),” Merck CEO Robert Davis said during a call with analysts.
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