Remdesivir
Total 6 Posts
How countries get away with hoarding drugs in a pandemic.
4 min read
The US has bought up most of the world’s supply of remdesivir. This type of treatment nationalism is nothing new, though.
Coronavirus: It is morally indefensible for a nation to keep life-saving drugs for itself.
5 min read
Treatment nationalism, when a country uses its dominant economic position to monopolise an important drug’s supply, or ban its exports, is a threat to global public health. We must oppose it.
The moral case for the world to have access to Covid-19 drug.
4 min read
If Gilead doesn’t voluntarily forego the enormous benefits conferred by the global patenting system, individual countries should take action.
Mutating coronavirus: What it means for all of us.
4 min read
A mutating coronavirus has implications for vaccines, treatments, tests and your future plans.
The world needs pharmaceuticals from China and India to beat coronavirus.
12 min read
A lot depends on China and India sharing the products of their pharmacuetical manufacturing with the rest of the world.
Coronavirus: Scientists promoting chloroquine and remdesivir are acting like sports rivals.
5 min read
A simple head-to-head trial would resolve this conflict once and for all.