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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: The Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health
Description: Before Remdesivir and Hydroxycloroquin there was Tamiflu.To prepare for Swine Flu and Bird Flu, governments spent billions stockpiling this drug called Tamiflu. You’d think governments used the best evidence-based advice, but the story of Tamiflu raises questions about how money shaped the process.On this episode of Cited, Darts and Letters predecessor, we open up the black box of pharmaceutical and public health expertise. We tell the story of a drug, from its days as middling flu treatment through its meteoric rise to international blockbuster. How do experts decide what makes a good dr...