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COVID-19 took almost everyone by surprise,

but some scientists anticipated a coronavirus epidemic.

We'll talk with one of them. This is the People's Pharmacy with

Terry and Joe Grady.

Dr. Ralph Barrick is known as the coronavirus hunter. He's been studying these

pathogens for more than 30 years. In particular he's been concerned about how they jump without warning from animals to people.

The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization for the antiviral drug remdessevere to treat COVID-19.

Dr. Barrack will tell us about the research on this drug and another promising medication

and what they could mean for the pandemic in the future.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, a conversation with the coronavirus Hunter.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, new data suggests that the coronavirus causing COVID-19 escaped China long before anyone suspected it was a problem.

Health officials in France tested samples from patients who were ill in December 2019. One of them, a 42-year-old man who developed pneumonia but tested negative for influenza

was found to have been infected with the coronavirus. His blood sample was drawn on December 27th,

approximately a month before the first COVID-19 patients were diagnosed in France.

The man was sick for two weeks and infected both his

children. No one knows how the man became infected with the coronavirus since he had

not traveled to China or anywhere else for that matter.

U.S. officials have also found evidence that some people who died in California during

February were infected with COVID-19.

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