Chasing COVID‐19 chemotherapeutics without putting the cart before the horse – Rannard – – British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology – Wiley Online Library – Wiley

Given time, drug discovery programmes will undoubtedly yield highly potent drugs to form the basis of optimised COVID19 regimens. However, if efficacious therapies can be identified from current medicines, repurposing represents the fastest route to establish deployable interventions and buy time for vaccine and novel drug development. It is important to note that effective medicines were rigorously optimised for the treatment of specific indications. Route of administration, dosage, and schedules…

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