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The race for antiviral drugs to beat COVID — and the next pandemic

Despite dire warnings, a stockpile of ready compounds to fight viral pandemics was sorely lacking. Can drugmakers finally do the right thing?
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Nature 592, 340-343 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00958-4

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