Financial rescue plan as the government turns to the International Monetary fund for help. Hello. Thanks for joining us. An experimental antiviral drug has been authorized by the u. S. Food and Drug Administration for urgency use in treating coronavirus patients. 1. 5 million vials of the drug remdesivir will be distributed to hospitals for monday. The fda gave its approval after a government sponsored study showed the drug shortened patients Recovery Time by about 31 percent. When the president brought the pharmaceutical companies here to the white house, you were among them. He said we wanted you to move out quickly to build a new vaccine but he said develop the therapeutics as quickly as you can. We were told that it was possible that by spring we would have therapeutics, and standing here on may 1, our very first therapeutic with emergency use authorization. Onating 1. 5 million doses our task force will be working closely with gilead to make sure that those medicines starting mond
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