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What does it mean to say that a new drug “works”?

John Beigel’s problem was that not enough Covid-19 people died. Not that he wanted them to, of course. It’s just that, as dire as the pandemic has been, it hasn’t killed as many people as it seemed. And Beigel, a researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, …

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