Trial and error: How scientists studied drugs touted to trea

Trial and error: How scientists studied drugs touted to treat COVID-19
Eyewitness News looks back on one of the drugs that was famously touted - even by people in influence - as part of a treatment regimen for COVID-19.
Remdesivir, which previously failed in trials against Ebola, is being touted as helping to improve outcomes against the COVID-19 illness. Picture: AFP
CAPE TOWN - Last year on this day, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
At the time, the virus - thought to have originated in China - had infected more than 100,000 people and was detected in over 110 countries.

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