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The Trump administration’s cornering the market for the only antiviral drug approved for use against COVID-19 – and boasting about it – is vulgar and insensitive. The Caribbean, though, shouldn’t only be chagrined by America’s behaviour. It should be a fillip for an accelerated pivot to scientific research in the region, an issue raised by this newspaper early in the coronavirus pandemic.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world is heading towards 11 million, of which over half-million have died. Roughly 26 per cent of the infections and a quarter of the deaths – more than 130,000 people – are in the United States (US).
There is, as yet, no vaccine against the virus. And until regulators in the US and Europe recently gave the green light to the drug remdesivir, manufactured by the American firm Gilead Sciences, there was no officially recommended antiviral remedy for COVID-19. Slowing the spread of the virus has been best achieved by social mandates such as quarantines, lockdowns, physical distancing, and wearing masks. At these and other areas of managing the disease, Donald Trump’s government hasn’t done an effective job.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/c...l-research-and
The Trump administration’s cornering the market for the only antiviral drug approved for use against COVID-19 – and boasting about it – is vulgar and insensitive. The Caribbean, though, shouldn’t only be chagrined by America’s behaviour. It should be a fillip for an accelerated pivot to scientific research in the region, an issue raised by this newspaper early in the coronavirus pandemic.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world is heading towards 11 million, of which over half-million have died. Roughly 26 per cent of the infections and a quarter of the deaths – more than 130,000 people – are in the United States (US).
There is, as yet, no vaccine against the virus. And until regulators in the US and Europe recently gave the green light to the drug remdesivir, manufactured by the American firm Gilead Sciences, there was no officially recommended antiviral remedy for COVID-19. Slowing the spread of the virus has been best achieved by social mandates such as quarantines, lockdowns, physical distancing, and wearing masks. At these and other areas of managing the disease, Donald Trump’s government hasn’t done an effective job.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/c...l-research-and
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015