"The pre-clinical cell line (cell culture) studies that they were proposing wouldn't take very long at all.."

I would think that considering the safety record of ABL that it would not be that difficult to proceed with hospital testing in parts of Canada with the help of the federal government instead of focusing on the bloody "WE" issue Trudeau is emersed in.

"An additional step will be to proceed with an open-label study to assess the safety and efficacy of a clinical course of oral apabetalone in hospitalized subjects with 2019-nCoV infection on top of standard of care compared to standard of care alone."

Just saying ... Koo