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    Cutting to the chase

    Feb 07, 2021 3 minutes
    by Nicky Pellegrino

    Back in 2009 during the swine flu pandemic, medical researchers discovered they weren’t able to act fast enough to come up with effective treatments. Knowing there would be more pandemics in the future, they decided to get better prepared.

    An important part of those preparations has been a large international clinical trial known as REMAP-CAP, led in New Zealand by Dr Colin McArthur. It started in 2016 by looking at treatments for community-acquired pneumonia, a common

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