US buys up world stock of key Covid-19 drug remdesivir

Published on July 1, 2020

The US has bought up virtually all the stocks for the next three months of one of the two drugs proven to work against Covid-19, leaving none for the UK, Europe or most of the rest of the world. The Guardian

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