WHO's new update comes about a month after the company Gilead Sciences, the maker of remdesivir, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration approved remdesivir for the treatment of coronavirus infection. Perna told a briefing by the White House coronavirus task force that the operation will be ready to move quickly after any FDA authorization. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Dr. Anthony Faucispeaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on November 19. The vaccines prevented both infection and severe disease, Fauci noted in a rare White House coronavirus task force briefing, the first held since July 8. And we do not support closing schools,” Pence said Thursday, at the first White House coronavirus task force briefing since July.

Source: The Nation November 20, 2020 02:03 UTC