London —Britain’s vaccine task force was the country’s biggest triumph since the 2012 Olympics — and it was a lot more consequential. It gave the UK, which has one of the world’s highest pandemic death tolls, early access to a suite of effective vaccines and a jump-start on immunising the population. It saved countless lives.

Can the government replicate that success to find a drug that can treat Covid-19 at home?..

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