From WSJopinion: Tired of waiting for government, nearly all the major players in drug discovery and development have taken matters into their own hands. Their goal is to accelerate creation of a vaccine or cure, writes SafiBahcall
Wonder Land: The dispute between"proven" therapies to treat coronavirus and taking risks for people at death’s door. Images: Everett Collection/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyWar breeds conspiracy, and in the biopharmaceutical world, far from public view, a broad conspiracy has formed.
Tired of waiting for the vacuum of national scientific leadership to be filled and impatient with the glacial pace of federal research labs, nearly all the major players in drug discovery and development have taken matters into their own hands. The goal of their insider-only collaboration—called “Covid R&D”—is to accelerate creation of a vaccine or cure.
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