
OpinionNovember 2, 2020
Beware Political Hype over the ‘Right to Try’ COVID Drugs
Giving some patients fast access to experimental treatments is no pandemic panacea
Jeremy Snyder is a professor and bioethicist in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. His book Exploiting Hope examines how hope for unproven medical interventions makes exploitation possible.

Beware Political Hype over the ‘Right to Try’ COVID Drugs
Giving some patients fast access to experimental treatments is no pandemic panacea