The race is on to find a vaccine for COVID-19 and Canada’s government may have taken the lead after its national drug regulator cleared a plan to begin studying the front-running candidate.
Martin Shkreli, the pharma CEO once branded as America’s most hated man has been denied release from prison after a judge ruled his plan to save the world from coronavirus was “delusional”.
This week saw some mixed news in coronavirus research as questions were raised about access to COVID-19 drugs as studies – and approvals – continued apace.
No-one even knows if it is possible to make a vaccine against COVID-19 and already there is an escalating row about cost and equitable access if one succeeds in clinical trials.
How do you keep a child with a suppressed immune system safe during COVID-19 lockdown? And how do you explain the dangers while protecting their – and your own – mental health?