Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Apr 2020
Potential coronavirus drugs may cost as little as $1, study says
10 April 2020 - Treatments being studied sell for hundreds of times their cost.
Potential coronavirus treatments could be made for as little as $1, well below their typical price tags in pharmacies, according to an analysis of nine drugs in clinical trials.
If their promise is confirmed in ongoing studies, medicines for COVID-19, including hydroxychloroquine, which President Donald Trump touted as a treatment, and Gilead Sciences Inc.’s remdesivir could be manufactured from $1 to $29 a course, a study published Friday in the Journal of Virus Eradication found.
