While Covid vaccines help curb the pandemic, researchers are working on an antiviral pill
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Last Updated: Apr 27, 2021, 06:07 PM IST
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Developing drugs for respiratory diseases is tough, partly because doses have to be high enough for the medicine to reach deep into the lungs yet not so high that they re toxic.
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