Global Pandemic: Man Credits Trial Drug For Beating Covid-19

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🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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As the coronavirus pandemic continues, the world still awaits a treatment for the virus. There may be some hope, however, after the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the drug 'Remdesivir' as a potential treatment last week. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks with Scott Efron, a cancer patient who recently beat coronavirus after receiving the trial drug 'Remdesivir', on his experience fighting the virus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.7	I'm Brian Kilmead.
0:15.7	I'm Martha McCallum.
0:16.6	I'm David Asman and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:19.4	Wednesday, May 6, 2020, I'm Trey Yinks.
0:25.0	Promising developments in coronavirus treatment are being attributed to saving lives.
0:30.0	Don't give up. I was given up. I told my kids I didn't want to survive. After this
0:37.8	COVID-19 I'm ready to live again. This is the Fox News rundown, global pandemic.
0:48.4	With more than 3.6 million cases of COVID-19 around the world and hundreds of thousands of dead.
0:55.6	It's easy to get caught up in the numbers.
0:57.6	Each number though represents a human life that's either taken or altered forever.
1:01.9	Over the next few minutes you'll get the latest headlines on
1:04.2	the global COVID-19 outbreak and hear from coronavirus survivor Scott Ephron
1:08.6	about a new clinical trial he says gave him another chance at life.
1:12.1	Starting first though with the company Gilead he says gave him another chance at life.
1:12.5	Starting first though with the company Gilead that continues clinical trials for the drug
1:17.0	Rmedesevir.
1:18.0	Gilead was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of this coronavirus treatment.
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