Source: Alex Acquisto, KENTUCKY.COM, 7/10/20


Patrick Perry was already sweating through his shirt when he climbed in his tractor Wednesday morning at Spindletop Farm in Lexington. He’d arrived before sunrise, in part to beat the heat, but mostly to prepare for the daily task at hand: transplanting half an acre’s worth of Artemisia annua seedlings in hopes that, once they’re harvested, they’ll be used to treat COVID-19. Perry is research coordinator for the University of Kentucky’s Tobacco Research and Development Center, which operates...

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