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Experts say race for COVID drugs dogged by false promises, lack of co-ordination – Lake Country Calendar – Lake Country Calendar
Urgency for effective drugs has only become more intense amid Canada’s vaccine deployment debacle

More than a year after COVID-19 emerged, few therapies exist and many that do are expensive, cumbersome and unproven, say experts who suggest disjointed data, funding and communication are derailing efforts to tamp down disease.
While warp speed efforts to develop vaccines have produced several promising options in mere months, there’s been comparatively little push for treatment tools to cut severe cases and deaths that are crippling health-care systems, says COVID-19 researcher Dr. Jordan Feld,…
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