Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Apr 2020
If pharma helps quench the COVID-19 pandemic, what will it want in return?
21 April 2020 - Make no mistake: the only long-term solution to the COVID-19 pandemic is a safe and effective vaccine.
The current focus on identifying effective treatments, while important, serve only as a temporary Band-Aid.
We don’t know yet if hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir, or any of the other repurposed drugs currently being tested in a blitzkrieg of quickly designed clinical trials are going to work and save lives. It’s highly likely that most of them, if not all of them, will fail or be only marginally helpful.
