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We don't have any good treatments for the novel coronavirus right now, but scientists are racing to change that

The drug company said we'll get the first information on how well remdesivir works in early April.

The Trump administration had raised worries that a potential coronavirus treatment might not be affordable, when the administration's top health official said he wouldn't take steps to control its price.

"As much as this is part of the new normal of diseases, that becomes part of the new normal of response or prevention," Zucker told an audience of public health students and journalists at New York University on Friday. "This has enough of a morbidity, or the potential for mortality, that you would say every season that this is around, you should get this vaccine."

 

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20% need hospitalization. But I have heard not plans on how to accommodate that many people.

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