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The Trump Administration’s Sweetheart Deal to A Pharma Company Working on A COVID-19 Treatment
“As the coronavirus outbreak intensified earlier this year, drugmaker Gilead Sciences sought and received an “orphan drug” designation for the antiviral drug remdesivir as a potential treatment for COVID-19. The orphan drug status gives a company a seven-year period of market exclusivity when it alone can sell and profit from treatment. But drugs only receive…