A University of Toronto researcher, Sachdev Sidhu, is confident that the lab's work with antibody therapies is leading it to an effective treatment, perhaps a cure, for COVID-19.
An Ontario radio station's account of an interview with the scientist may overstate the imminence of a widely available treatment and the likelihood of a complete cure. Sidhu stated some big ambitions: "I wouldn't mind getting a Nobel Prize for economics" for helping reshape pharmaceutical development, he said. He does not discuss in the interview his founding of a private company with two other doctors to commercialize his academic work.
Any new therapy generally passes through rigorous testing to prove both its efficacy and safety. There is as yet no independent assessment of Sidhu's chances of success.