Britain Moves On to the Next Big Covid Problem: Treatment

Boris Johnson wants to do for Covid drugs what he did for vaccines. It’s not that simple.

By Therese Raphael, Bloomberg

Britain’s Vaccine Task Force was the country’s biggest triumph since the 2012 Olympics — and it was a lot more consequential. It gave the U.K., which has one of the world’s highest pandemic death tolls, early access to a suite of effective vaccines and a jumpstart on immunizing the population. It saved countless lives.

Can the government replicate that success to find a drug that can treat Covid-19 at home?

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