The Food and Drug Administration has authorized the emergency use of remdesivir to treat COVID-19.
care providers, as appropriate, to treat severe cases of COVID-19 in adults and children hospitalized with the disease.
President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus response event in the Blue Room at the White House in Washington, May 1, 2020."People were thinking in terms of 1.5 million lives lost to 2.2 without the mitigation, and hopefully we're going to come in below that 100,000 lives lost, which is a horrible number nevertheless. It's a horrible thing. Could have been stopped. Should have been stopped at the source, but it wasn't," the president said.
The president said the day's honorees would be"the first of a number of individuals we will honor in the coming weeks," before handing out certificates.President Donald Trump's, Kayleigh McEnany, held her first official briefing from the White House Briefing Room, something her predecessor never did, and vowed from the podium:"I will never lie to you."
"I won't get ahead of the president's decision or the timing of that decision, but he takes this very seriously because the decisions of China that I referenced, slow-walking some of that information, put American lives at risk," she said, after reading a timeline of how, she said, China and the World Health Organization were slow to respond.
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