Source: BGR
As countries like the US continue racing to inject their populations with the coronavirus vaccine as fast as they can, in an effort to outpace the spread of more transmissible COVID-19 variants, it should come as no surprise that work is also ongoing behind the scenes toward the development of other effective coronavirus treatments and therapies. And Italy has emerged as a particular hub of this kind of work, as a complement to the now more than 306 million coronavirus vaccine shots that have been administered across 115 countries, according to Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker . While drug makers like Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson have been among those who’ve swiftly won emergency use authorization in countries including the US for their COVID vaccines, Italy is doing its part in service of a parallel fight, with a robust pharmaceutical hub in the country that was created more than 100 years ago now being marshaled to fight a virus that’s killed almost 99,000 in the country. Italy’s research hub is centered around the city of Siena in Tuscany, which is where, among other things, an antidote for anthrax was discovered.