The nation's top virologist said that randomized clinical trials to determine whether a number of possible treatments for COVID-19 will be effective won't be ready until the summer.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci speaks during the daily coronavirus briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 09, 2020 in Washington, DC.National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said that results from clinical trials to determine the efficacy of a number of possible COVID-19 treatments will not be available"for months.
Fauci, who has run the NIAID since 1984 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in 2008, said that the social distancing measures that governors across the U.S. have imposed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are working and should remain in place to prevent spikes in new infections.
Although President Donald Trump had suggested as recently as last month that many of the social distancing measures would be able to be lifted by Easter Sunday, as of earlier this week, at least 42 states remain under the stay-at-home orders that have so far contributed to both a drop-off in new infections and levels of unemployment not seen since the Great Depression.
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