In early 2020, a husband and wife team took a chance on a drug that had never been tested in humans. It became a pill for Covid. “We thought this should be done even if there were risks.”
The bright orange capsule that could transform Covid-19 treatment wasn’t on the radar in January 2020 when the pandemic was unfolding. had never been tested in humans. Lab experiments suggested people would need an enormous dose.
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