Interestingly. It didnt work as well for ebola. However, there have been Animal Studies as well as studies in the lab that democrat nstrate at sars and mers. Reporter how does it work . When a virus tries to reproduce itself, it stops viral replication, so it stops reproduction of the virus. Reporter this Clinical Trial is up and running in the middle of this outbreak. I will say this is the fastest Clinical Trial that ive ever seen come to fruition in this amount of time. Reporter ordinarily how long would it take to g of the antiviral remdesivir, gil Yard Sciences in california, is ramping up production for multiple trials in the u. S. , asia and europe. The u. S. Army is also testing the drug. With no proven treatments, hundreds of trials of different drugs are underway worldwide. Researchers in the u. S. And china are investigating whether the common antimalarial drug chloroquin might inhibit the virus. They are testing a cocktail of antibodies to see if they can temporarily boost
Not surprisingly, fear is the subject of a school of research all its own as well be hearing from david pogue, in our cover story. Coronavirus fear is normal even healthy right up to the point it gets dangerous. Most dont have the expert knowledge so when are afraid we engage in behaviors like putting on a mask that may not work. The fear is using judgment in ways that arent useful. The rational and the rational, and irrational responses to an invisible threat, ahead on sunday morning. Much as we might not want to think about it a rapid increase in coronavirus cases could soon force doctors to make extremely difficult medical and ethical choices as well be hearing from ted koppel. Hospitals are desperately short of ventilators and as the numbea decisions. So youve got me in your hospital. And youve got a 22 year old, and both of us need that piece of equipment. Who gets it . I think by most the younger person would be assigned that ventilator. Then look in the camera and say, ted, you
No you are a loser. Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, trolling trump. Plus stephen welcomes Kirsten Dunst, adam devine, and lee pace, featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause theme song playing stephen hey whoo thank you welcome one and all in here, out there, to the late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause you know what . You are such a good audience, lets start off with a fun y. Ory. There is a petition currently circulating here in new york city to rename the stretch of fifth avenue between 56th and 57th streets president barack obama avenue. cheers and applause jon wow, wow whoo yeah stephen i agree jon come on stephen yes, sir, yes, sir jon imniym into that stephen to make the honor complete, whenever a car tries to turn left, it will be blocked by mitch mcconnell. V piano riff laughter applause most importantly, that tiny stretch of
Ceo of media health on helping employees navigate a change of life. Thats this week on press here. Good morning, everyone. Im scott mcgrew. If you looked at earth from space there would be no obvious sign anyone lived here. Its just a Big Blue Marble or a pale blue dot, but if you look closely enough you might start to see the stuff we humans leave lying around, the carcass of an Apollo Lander on the moon, a deep space probe or all those satellites that weve put into orbit. Astronomers call those techno signatures and my first guest is the Principal Investigator in a nasafunded effort to find techno signatures on other words to look for aliens, dr. Adam frank is an astro physicist and his new book little book of aliens talk about astro signatures. First, i want to understand techno signatures and you may remember the movie contact that does a great job of how video waves propagate out in the space and weve been looking for signals from other planets looking for that in decades and tech
Ceo of media health on helping employees navigate a change of life. Thats this week on press here. Good morning, everyone. Im scott mcgrew. If you looked at earth from space there would be no obvious sign anyone lived here. Its just a Big Blue Marble or a pale blue dot, but if you look closely enough you might start to see the stuff we humans leave lying around, the carcass of an Apollo Lander on the moon, a deep space probe or all those satellites that weve put into orbit. Astronomers call those techno signatures and my first guest is the Principal Investigator in a nasafunded effort to find techno signatures on other words to look for aliens, dr. Adam frank is an astro physicist and his new book little book of aliens talk about astro signatures. First, i want to understand techno signatures and you may remember the movie contact that does a great job of how video waves propagate out in the space and weve been looking for signals from other planets looking for that in decades and tech