It's Wednesday, April 29th, 2020, and the FDA is ready to approve a treatment.

I'm Sean Ramasfer, and this is your coronavirus update from today explained.

The Food and Drug Administration is planning to announce Remdesivir as an emergency COVID-19

treatment.

A hot-off-the-pressist study says that it's sped up the recovery time of patients with the

virus.

The Brad Pitt of Infectious Disease Doctors, Anthony Fauci, cautioned that the study still

needs to be peer-reviewed, but he sounded optimistic.

President Trump was also optimistic, but it was just last week he sounded optimistic

about household disinfectants.

So please temper your expectations, people.

Just a reminder that Remdesivir is not a vaccine.

It doesn't prevent COVID-19.

It's a treatment for people who have COVID-19.

The vaccine still looks a ways away, but good news is good news, right?

And it looks like it couldn't come a moment to soon.

In the first quarter of 2020, the United States economy contracted by nearly 5 percent.

Just the most since the financial crisis of 2008, half the country says that someone in

their household has either lost a job or has had their hours reduced because of this

coronavirus.

According to a new Marist poll, that same survey found that an overwhelming number of Americans

do not think schools, restaurants, or sports should be coming back until we have more testing.

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