This Drug Maker Saw the Pandemic Coming

Prognosis: Breakthrough

• Episode: This Drug Maker Saw the Pandemic Coming
• Website: Prognosis: Breakthrough
• Feed URL: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/BLM8995439705
• Duration: 00:16:00
• Published: 2020-05-14 22:49

When Covid-19 hit, Gilead Sciences Inc. had enough of its experimental drug remdesivir ready to test and start manufacturing it at a larger scale. That's because it had started stockpiling not just the drug, but its ingredients, at the first hint there may be a new coronavirus. Robert Langreth reports on why the company was able to act early to prepare for a pandemic when so many businesses and institutions did not. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com