The US Food and Drug Administration plans to announce an emergency-use authorization for remdesivir, an investigational coronavirus treatment, according to the New York Times
Chains separating the back half of a public bus from the driver's space hang to protect MTA bus drivers from COVID-19 exposure, on Friday, April 24, in the Bronx borough of New York. John Minchillo/AP
Ken Lovett, the senior adviser to the MTA chairman and CEO, issued the following statement Wednesday: “Any essential worker who shows up and gets on a train should know that that train was disinfected the night before. We want them to show up. We don't want them to stay home. We owe it to them to be able to say the train you ride, the bus you ride, has been disinfected and is clean,” he said.“To let homeless people stay on the trains in the middle of a global health pandemic with no masks, no protective equipment, you're not helping the homeless.
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