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Kim Perales

Another travesty:

"Our grant to discover coronavirus antiviral meds was terminated today.

We'd developed a better SARSCoV2 inhibitor than Paxlovid +we recently discovered an improved drug that looks better than Pfizer's own 2nd-gen inhibitor.

Part of a complete elimin of COVID-related research, incl. .

The rationale given is that the pandemic is over.

Ppl are dying of at several times the rate of flu +still getting long COVID."
-Dr M Lin


arstechnica.com/health/2025/03

Huge facade for CDC headquarters against a beautiful sky.
Ars Technica · RFK Jr. claws back $11.4B in CDC funding amid wave of top-level departuresBy Beth Mole

@KimPerales Make the research public