October 08, 2020

Ironic Twist: In Spring, Trump Halted Research Key To COVID-19 Drug He's Now Taken-NPR

President Trump has credited the apparent improvement of his coronavirus infection to, as he put it in one tweet, "some really great drugs" that were "developed, under the Trump Administration." The assertion carries special irony for researcher Peter Daszak. For years Daszak led a U.S.-funded project that played an important role in the emergence of one of those drugs — remdesivir — as a promising treatment for COVID-19. NPR, 10/07/2020