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Could pressure for COVID-19 drugs lead the FDA to lower its standards?

  • Written by Leigh Turner, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics, School of Public Health, & College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota
imageLaboratories around the world are working round the clock to find treatments or a vaccine for COVID-19.Getty Images / Kena Betancur

Given the death, suffering, social disruption and economic devastation caused by COVID-19, there is an urgent need to quickly develop therapies to treat this disease and prevent the spread of the virus.

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