Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

What a letdown.

Six weeks of endless speculation, guessing, second-guessing, ups, and downs about whether the world would have its first effective coronavirus drug has been exhausting. I see the damn molecule in my sleep.

First, we do not know whether remdesivir has failed. Not by a long shot. The leaked draft document of a trial in China may or may not be real.

The world got a taste, albeit, a premature taste, of some bad news this afternoon.

Gilead Science is the Tom Brady of the antiviral research world. No other company even comes close.

The first discussion of the disease that would later become AIDS appeared in an article in the June 5, 1981 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).

Last week, Tom Frieden, the former Director of the US Centers for Disease Control in the Obama administration, wrote an editorial in the

Stat News just broke a story that has been picked up by the wider press and has generated quite a bit of

# From The Latest Hydroxychloroquine Data, As of April 11.

In spite of study after study and the writings of expert after expert over the last 25 years, we, as a society, have failed to provide for our own security in the face of a potential public health threat.  We have failed to supply and ma