The FDA has made 42 new drug approvals in 2020: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/new-drugs-fda-cders-new-molecular-entities-and-new-therapeutic-biological-products/nov

The FDA has made 42 new drug approvals in 2020: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/new-drugs-fda-cders-new-molecular-entities-and-new-therapeutic-biological-products/novel-drug-approvals-2020 https://www.fda.gov/drugs/new-drugs-fda-cders-new-molecular-... Certainly some of those are new uses for existing drugs, but drug trials ain't cheap either.