FREE newsletter is just champion! Get the biggest and brightest stories sent straight to your inboxThe United States has bought up all existing stock of one of two drugs proven to work against Covid-19, which will not be available to any other country on Earth for the next three months.The Trump administration has outbid and out outmanoeuvred all other countries to secure medical supplies for American citizens, leaving next to nothing for the rest of the world, The Guardian reports.
Campaigners and medical experts are said to be "alarmed" by the US move to buy up Remdesivir, a medicine proven used to fight coronavirus.It is the first drug approved by licensing authorities in the US, and is made by Gilead and has been shown to help people.