Fauci, feds pour $65M into UNC pandemic project

UNC Chapel Hill has secured a $65 million federal grant to establish a center focused on developing oral antivirals that can combat pandemic-level viruses, like Covid-19. The funding the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health received is part of $577 million that the National Institutes of Health has awarded to establish nine Antiviral Drug Discovery Centers throughout the U.S. The centers will research candidate antivirals for Covid-19 and antivirals targeting other specific viral families…