United States coronavirus deaths surpass 60,000; Florida will start to reopen May 4, excludes 3 biggest counties; Sweden takes anti-lockdown approach to fighting coronavirus; Report: MLB eyeing plan to start season in late June;

Erin Burnett OutFront

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🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Dr. Fauci: New data shows Remdesivir has promise against virus; Dr. Fauci: Early trial results show Remdesivir has a "significant, positive effect" in treating coronavirus; New York Times: FDA expected to issue emergency authorization for remdesivir; Trump touts testing that will be "astonishing," then says "I don't know that all of that is even necessary"; Trump touts coronavirus testing and downplays it at same time; Florida will start to reopen May 4, excludes 3 biggest counties, restaurants and retail shops will open at 25 percent capacity; Florida Governor Desantis announces plan to start reopening next Monday, excludes about 30 percent of state's population; Report: Florida officials asked state's medical examiners to withhold coronavirus death figures; Sweden says it's fighting virus by learning to live with it; Can the United States learn anything from Sweden's anti-lockdown strategy?; CEO of Wynn Resorts tells Trump he thinks Las Vegas strip could reopen by Memorial Day; Casinos in Las Vegas eager to reopen as workers struggle; Las Vegas called "ground zero" for economic damage; Report: MLB officials in talks to start season in late June, would include 3 divisions, no fans in stadiums; Fauci says "there is.a pathway" to baseball in 2020 amid report MLB is in talks to start season in late June;To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.2	Up front next, clear-cut evidence. Those are the words of Dr. Anthony Fauci, expecting optimism about a potential treatment for coronavirus.
0:41.3	Doctors leading the study of this drug is out front. Plus, Florida's governor announcing plans to reopen the state, but he's excluding some of the state's biggest counties.
0:49.8	We're going to talk to the mayor of Miami, who is not part of the governor's plan tonight? And is Sweden
0:54.5	brilliant or reckless? Why is Sweden not hunkering down? And can the United States learn something big?
1:01.3	Let's go out front. And good evening. I'm Erin Burnett out front tonight, a glimmer of hope
1:08.0	amid grim new numbers. On the day the United States hit 60,000 deaths from coronavirus,
1:14.4	Dr. Anthony Fauci putting his credibility on the line to tout what he describes as significant
1:19.5	news on a possible treatment for coronavirus.
1:23.9	The data shows that Ramdesivir has a clear-cut, significant, positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery.
1:35.0	This drug happens to be blocking a enzyme that the virus uses.
1:42.1	According to Dr. Fauci, you heard it. The results from the preliminary trial show that remdesivir improved recovery time for coronavirus patients and solidly.
1:51.7	15 days for the placebo, 11 days for people who were on the drug, and that is important.
1:57.8	There are those still big questions tonight.
1:59.9	Fauci admitting that the drug did
2:01.1	not show a statistically significant benefit in whether patients actually died. News of a potential
2:06.8	treatment, though, was enough for markets. The Dow surging more than 530 points today on that
2:13.4	study result alone. And tonight, the FDA is reportedly planning to okay the emergency use
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