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Re:WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising ... by endorphone on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:58AM (#22664693)
"already manufactured in large scale"

People who need it for medical conditions are finding it impossible to find. Not sure how large the production is.

Any treatment that is found to actually be effective in real studies is pretty clearly going to be nationalized, recreated by countries around the globe, and mass produced overnight.

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Re:WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising ... by xienze on Monday March 23, 2020 @11:26AM (#22664983)
> Not sure how large the production is.

It's large, or can be easily scaled up. Novartis is pledging 130M tablets, Teva 16M, Mylan is planning on ramping production up to 50M.

0: https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/new-commitments-mylan-an...

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