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Potential Coronavirus Drugs May Cost as Little as $1, Study Says

  • Medicines including Gilead’s remdesivir could be made en masse
  • Treatments being studied sell for hundreds of times their cost
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate medication.
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate medication.

Photographer: John Phillips/Getty Images 

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Potential coronavirus treatments could be made for as little as $1, well below their typical price tags in pharmacies, according to an analysis of nine drugs in clinical trials.