Theodore G. Liou: It takes time to develop a new medicine

Rapidly fatal pneumonia due to COVID-19 confronts us with an expanding pandemic for which we have no vaccination and no direct treatment. Thousands are dead, and many more would be lost without heroic ongoing efforts to support patients through respiratory failure and allow time for recovery.The rapidly mounting tragedies strike not only the infirm and elderly but an increasing number of healthy younger individuals, and they plead for immediately available specifically effective therapies. In re