Audio long-read: How drugmakers can be better prepared for the next pandemic
Nature Podcast
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🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Despite warnings, and a number of close calls, drugmakers failed to develop and stockpile drugs to fight a viral pandemic. Now, in the wake of SARS-CoV-2, they are pledging not to make the same mistake again.
Around the world, researchers are racing to develop drugs to target COVID-19, but also broad-spectrum antivirals that could be used to treat future viral threats.
This is an audio version of our feature: The race for antiviral drugs to beat COVID — and the next pandemic
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| 1:03.9 | This is an audio long read from nature. |
| 1:06.8 | In this episode, the race for antiviral Drugs to Beat COVID and The Next Pandemic, |
| 1:13.6 | written by Ailey Dolgin and read by me, Benjamin Thompson. |
| 1:20.1 | The year 2003 was an ominous one for emerging infectious diseases. |
| 1:26.2 | A pair of deadly influenza strains had leapt from birds to humans |
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