Coronavirus: The Search for Antiviral Drugs

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

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🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The hunt to find antiviral drugs has pressed on as we await a vaccine. Remdesivier is the latest treatment that has been touted to help patients suffering from COVID-19. But does this and other antiviral drugs really help cure patients? Scientist Derek Angus helps answer this and understand what role Antiviral drugs play in our community.

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0:00.0	Witness Docs from Stitcher
0:12.0	This is in historic time.
0:14.0	This is going to be a multi-year fight.
0:17.0	Why is it taking so long to get a screening test?
0:20.0	It is not a hoax, it is real.
0:22.0	Something that we have never experienced before.
0:25.0	Wash hands, wash hands, wash hands.
0:28.0	You're the scientists, you're going to have to tell me.
0:31.0	Welcome, welcome to Science Rules, coronavirus edition.
0:36.0	I'm your host Bill Nye, and this is our special series in which we bring you the latest analysis
0:41.0	and the science of this pandemic.
0:43.0	We want to keep you informed, prepared, and calm.
0:47.0	We're all in this together, my friends, hence the term pandemic.
0:51.0	It's worldwide.
0:52.0	As of today, May 12th, there are nearly 1.4 million reported cases of COVID-19 in the United States.
1:00.0	And that number includes more than 81,000 deaths.
1:04.0	We keep hearing about different drugs that might be able to lessen the effect of COVID-19.
1:09.0	For a while, the president was touting hydroxychloroquine, and that's proven for some at least to be quite dangerous.
1:17.0	Recently, people have been excited about Remdesivir, an anti-inflammatory drug, which is the first drug to show clear benefits in rigorous studies.
1:26.0	What I think we all want to know, and by that I mean what I want to know is what can these drugs do for us?
1:34.0	How can we know if they work? How can we know if they're safe?
1:38.0	Our guest today is Dr. Derek Angus, who is here to help us address these very questions.
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