People are buying up a heartburn medicine that's being tested as a coronavirus treatment, leading to shortages
Sunday that the researchers had fought to keep the study quiet, fearing a possible run on the medicines.
The possible benefits — and subsequent shortages — of famotidine are not unlike what happened earlier this year with a malaria pill from the 1940s that wasTwo weeks after Business Insider covered their hopes that the drug, hydroxychloroquine, could be used to fight coronavirus, and resulting shortages as Americans stocked up, the US Food and Drug Administration officially recognized the shortages.
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