Sign up here for GlobalData's free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know.Repurposing drugs has been core to the pharma industry’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic over the past six months.
Although vaccines will be essential to ending the pandemic, drugs already in development or approved will, in the short term, help to effectively treat this deadly viral disease, and hopefully reduce the number of people losing their lives.
To date, the industry has most success in repurposing drugs to treat patients suffering with severe or critical Covid-19 who are often in hospital and in need of ventilation.