Feb 28, 2020

Making a correction

We're on track for the week with the biggest stock losses since the 2008 financial crisis. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images

Stock indices and bond yields are falling again on Friday. S&P 500 sees its fastest correction in history. One drug with the potential to fight coronavirus already in the development pipeline.

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COVID-19

Scientists look to drugs already in development to combat COVID-19

by Sam Whitehead

Feb 28, 2020

The new coronavirus has researchers looking through their back catalogs for possible solutions.

Mike Natchus, who works at the Emory Institute for Drug Development in Atlanta, examines one of the compounds used in the lab where EIDD 2801 was developed.

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