COVID-19 news Friday: New York's governor sparred with the president, a day after the US saw a dramatic jump in deaths.
China, which has been under heavy criticism for lack of transparency over the coronavirus outbreak,in the epicenter of Wuhan, adding more than a thousand virus-related fatalities.
Remdesivir, the result of more than a decade of Gilead Sciences research, has been tested for multiple potential applications in recent years. The company tested the drug as a treatment for Ebola in west Africa in 2014. It has also been tested as a treatment of SARS and for hepatitis C.Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday that New York City would be canceling concerts and all other nonessential events through May – and is considering doing the same for June.
“Can I envision as early as June mass gatherings like some of these huge events that are beautiful events but they’re really mass gatherings, hundreds of thousands of people, in some cases more than a million?” de Blasio said. “I can’t see it, but I want to talk to the event organizers... I don’t see it for June.
The move comes as business owners and Republicans called on Evers to roll back restrictions, not extend them. Republican lawmakers also threatened to fire the leader of the state's health agency from her job overseeing the state's response to the outbreak and signaled they would take the governor to court.
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