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COVID-19 treatment might already exist in old drugs – we're using pieces of the coronavirus itself to find them

  • Written by Nevan Krogan, Professor and Director of Quantitative Biosciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco
There are 20,000 FDA approved drugs. One of them might fight COVID-19, if we can find it. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images

Why don’t we have drugs to treat COVID-19 and how long will it take to develop them?

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