the methods that officials of health and human services are using to distribute the critical drug remdesivir, in an online view, a doctor complained that the system is secretive and inconsistent. >> the lack of transparency that is troubling to all of us, we don't note what magic formula is being used by the federal government to determine which state gets what. >> reporter: he said that the inconsistencies have made it more difficult to plan treatment for some covid patients. >> we were on the edge of the cliff so many last weeks, where you know, we saw patients on remdesivir and not knowing, not having enough to finish the round, and hoping a shipment would come in. >> reporter: he said that the situation has been somewhat better because they were given a waiver to use remdesivir left over from trials. but they have been conserving their supplies. >> there's been issues where we have been low, and we have spent sleepless nights worrying, am i over using the supply. am i under using it. >> the drug's manufacturer is head quartered a few miles away in foster city and still conducting piece o

and therapies to the state including nearly 70,000 vials of remdesivir.s been very successful, imight add. patients. it's been very successful, i might add. my administration also delivered ppe and point of care testing to over 100 arizona nursing homes. in total the federal government has provided massive amounts of mask and equipments and gown and you know, some of those numbers. but arizona was a very big beneficiary. and they very much received, very much really appreciated. more than 1000 national guard and medical personnel have also been deployed in arizona. and they really helped. they've been terrific and i want to thank them. they have been brave and brilliant, a combination of both. we also supported our tribal communities. the tribal communities were hit very, very hard. governor ducey and i personally does delivered rapid testing systems to the navajo nation. which has been really, really originally bad shape and are getting better and very very quickly. the navajo nation now has one of the highest levels of testing per capita anywhere in the

president trump: how is remdesivir going? >> it is working. been really to dig into it most with the daily reports that you send out. the resources for navajo nation, is there any issue? along with the surge and testing sites that have happened in marydale and south phoenix? they needed this testing. in a rows, 12 days with good turnaround. president trump: i am proud of you. that is a great success. there is more to do but -- >> standard course. >>>> we like that trajectory. fantastic jobp: in arizona. does anybody have any questions for the governor? we will have a news conference at 5:30. i have not discussed it with the governor. i can tell you in florida they have done a very good job with it. you have no idea, paterson, new jersey is 25% or 20% of the vote is tainted. you can't have that. it is ok. absentee voting, great. you will never know who won the election. nevada is a big state. it is an important state. it is a very political stay. the governor happens to be a democrat. i don't believe the post office can be set up, they were giv

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remdesivir, which was authorized on may 1st, we're still collecting data, and we will continue to dot with plasma as well. it's the nuances of the language. >> it's a promising treatment, you can't say it's very effective just yet. >> if you're one of those 35 out of 100 people who these data suggests or show a result of it, this is pretty significant for that person other family. rvrp thank you. >>> the announcement from the president of the united states that the food and drug administration has issued what's called an emergency use authorization, insists its potentially promising as a covid treatment for those patients already in the hospital. the president insisting this is an historic day, a very significant development, he says he's very pleased, very, very happy we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." dr. sanjay gupta is with us. you were listening to the precise words, what the president said and what the two experts alex azar and dr. stephen hahn had to say. what is your reaction? is this a huge

the methods that officials of health and human services are using to distribute the critical drug remdesivir, in an online view, a doctor complained that the system is secretive and inconsistent. >> the lack of transparency that is troubling to all of us, we don't note what magic formula is being used by the federal government to determine which state gets what. >> reporter: he said that the inconsistencies have made it more difficult to plan treatment for some covid patients. >> we were on the edge of the cliff so many last weeks, where you know, we saw patients on remdesivir and not knowing, not having enough to finish the round, and hoping a shipment would come in. >> reporter: he said that the situation has been somewhat better because they were given a waiver to use remdesivir left over from trials. but they have been conserving their supplies. >> there's been issues where we have been low, and we have spent sleepless nights worrying, am i over using the supply. am i under using it. >> the drug's manufacturer is head quartered a few miles away in foster city and still conducting clinica

pfizer signed a multiyear deal with gilyard siead sciences to remdesivir. and that is showing signs to help patients recover faster. gilead based in foster city is hoping to make enough remdesivir to treat 2 million patients by the end of the year. and pfizer is just the latest company to join the list that they are partnering with. the company is also working with bio entech to develop a vaccine. >>> and ever since the pandemic began, we've heard over and over we will turn a corner when there is a vaccine. so where are we when it comes to developing a vaccine? we hope that you will join us for a special series of stories exploring what role the bay area is playing to develop one. have the experiments under way shown any success and will people want to get a vaccine once it is approved? you came watch all this week on our app and our website. >>> coming bouing back from unemployment. how some laid off workers right here in the bay area turn their new free time into a business opportunity. >> afrnnd the deadline looming people struggling to pay the rent in a

one with medicines like remdesivir, which we've heard so much about. another is with antibody treatments. the third, obviously, is a vaccine which is still in development. dr. torres said let's go back to that antibody treatment and how those are being used to help people stay safe. >> we have two different ways of using those antibodies, one, the convalescent plasma, taking plasma from donors who survived coronavirus and have antibodies and giving that plasma to somebody suffering from coronavirus. now, that's difficult to do because there aren't as many donors as there are people suffering from coronavirus, so what they're doing also is what's called mono clonal

abc7 new >>he reps number of ahe unn the bay aa health and human services are using remdesivir.n an online interview, this doctor of ucsf complained the system is secretive and inconsistent. >> the capriciousness and the lack of transparency -- we don't know what logic formula is being used by the federal government to determine which state gets what zwl he says the inconsistencies have made it more difficult to plan treatment for some covid patients. >> we were on the edge of the cliff so many last weeks where we saw patients on remdesivir and not knowing -- not having enough to finish the course but then hoping the shipment would come? >> reporter: this doctor says the situation has been somewhat better in stanford in part waer to use doses of remdesivir left over from a earlier clinical trial. still she says doctors have worked hard to conserve supplies. >> there have been times we've been quite low and we've all spent sleepless nights worrying that, am i overusing the supply? am i underusing it? >> reporter: the drug's manufacture gilead is a few miles away and still conduct

convalescent plasma is one new tool we've added to our arsenal against covid-19, alongside remdesivir, steroids, and a number of other promising options currently being studied. because of the president's operation warp speed, we expect to have other new results and new options reaching patients as soon as this fall. operation warp speed is supporting experimental therapeutics all the way through to manufacturing so that if they meet fda's gold standard for safety and efficacy, they can begin reaching patients without a day wasted. americans who have tested positive for and recovered from covid-19 can go to coronavirus.gov to find out a quick and convenient way to play a potentially life-saving role in our fight. know, if you donate plasma, you could save a life. we have also provided guidance, so health-care providers can contact patients who have recovered from covid-19 and give them information on how they can donate. so thank you again, mr. president, for supporting this remarkable progress against covid-19, and i want to thank dr. han, dr. marks, and the entire team at the fda fo

onead had enough proof remdesivir to move ahead with that.re two other antivirals availablet are orally , there are multiple antibodies coming, and quite a few additional immune modulators. so between those different classes of drugs, we should be able to drop the death rate a lot. it has already dropped quite a bit as doctors realized not to use ventilators much, to use oxygen earlier, use the prone the drugs including remdesivir that we have. but before the end of the year, we will have antibodies that those could be quite dramatic in benefits. emily: there was a lot of bad information about therapeutics out there. these are some of the myths, hydroxychloroquine being one of them. bill: you know, it is an age of science but sometimes it doesn't feel that way. testing,ideas about hydroxychloroquine, the numbers are quite clear. it got confused because the trials were done so poorly but there is lots of good things coming in the therapeutic area that are really proven to work without severe side effects. little bit slow, but a lot of good new

a la espera de una vacuna o de un medicamento efectivo, remdesivir ha recortado el tiempo de hospitalizaciónl y 3 mil dólares ha ganado críticas, además de un pedido para que el gobierno intervenga, se usaron fondos federales para el desarrollo del medicamento, tenemos la información . >> no es precisamente la cura que todos deseamos, pero el remdisivir es el único antiviral que ha probado ser efectivo con el covid-19, sin embargo, su alto precio de entre 3120 y 2340 dólares por tratamiento, ha causado escÁndalo, especialmente porque más de $70,000,000 de los contribuyentes fueron para su desarrollo y distribución . >> gastamos fondos públicos en el desarrollo del medicamento también tenemos derecho de que el medicamento sea accesible. >> de acuerdo al instituto (información en pantalla) la materia prima para un tratamiento de 10 días cuesta 10 dólares, un dólar por cada día, quienes serán más afectados ,serán los que no tienen seguro de gastos médicos . >> como esta madre soltera que ha acudido al hospital 15 veces por complicaciones respiratorias por contagiarse en marzo. aunque no recibió

. >>> antidrug remdesivir pfizer and gilead sciences came to a multi year manufacturing deal. doctors have been using remdesivir in recent months to help in the recovery of severely ill covid patients. >>> a live look at sfo, one of many u.s. airports seeing a steep dropoff inactivity during the pandemic. the tsa says yesterday it scening 743,000 people across the country. that compares to 2.7 million on the same date last year. >>> and just yesterday the state department lifted a warning against all international travel. it's going back to in issuing warnings for specific countries instead. americans face restrictions by foreign governments. >>> the oakland a's coach has apologized after using what he used an unintentional [ null ] salute. he extended his right arm with palm down in a post game handshake line. released aim stay saying, in the world day of covid i a can'ted our elbow dump to create distance with players, my gesture resulted in a racist úbelieve in. salute do you not the team released a statement saying we do not support or condone the gesture, this is incredib

so allocations of remdesivir could get to that hospital -- >> i thank you very much for that. and so you developed the reasons? no one dictated the reasons or told you the reasons for the change? you came up with the reasons? >> congresswoman, yes, i think it was important that we were able to in real-time be able to know when remdesivir needed to know and the system that we had developed the national safety safety healthcare -- >> so were you told about the changes why they were being done, or did you and others develop the changes? who told you -- >> we work cooperatively together, members of the hhs and the c.d.c. >> ok, i only have so much time. the trump administration has threatened to cut off the supplies of remdesivir to hospitals that do not follow the new reporting mandates. dr. redfield, this is the only drug to successfully treat the coronavirus. the patient should be denied to it potentially a lifesaving drug like remdesivir because a hospital was unable to comply with a sudden change in h.h.s. reporting requirements? >> my understanding is we continue to do every

for example remdesivir which was authorized on may 1st.ill collecting data and will continue to do that with plasma as well. it is the nuances with the language around the authorization we use. >> it is a promising treatment. you couldn't say it is very effective just yet? >> i would say if you're one of those 35 out of 100 people who these data suggest or show survival as a result of it, this is pretty significant for that person and their family. >> this is a very big day. it is a day we've been looking forward to. thank you very much, great questions. >> was there pressure on you, dr. hahn -- jon: so the white house press conference which was originally scheduled for the rose garden, newly-renovated rose garden has concluded there, after oh, just about 20 minutes or so. president trump announcing along with the health and human services secretary and the director of the fda that convalescent plasma is going to be used under an emergency authorization. it is going to be available to treat covid-19 patients. convalescent plasma, blood pla

like many centers, they've used a one-two punch of remdesivir along with another agent to both attack the virus and deal with dangerous inflammation it can trigger. >> remdesivir, which is really a virus drug, or >> there's a nationwide trial using another drug class studied in hiv, cancer, and other diseases. it's called interferon and it triggers a different kind of combination effect to go along with remdesivir. >> i love the idea of getting at it from different angles, because i feel like the virus is very smart. >> reporter: this doctor is an infectious disease specialist with stanford and also a believer in the cocktail approach. she says the team is about to take the concept a step further, adding a virus fighter known as a monocolonial antibody to the remdesivir mix, creating a one, two, three combination. >> direct antiviral plus an s a anti-inpolicem anti-inflammatory plus a monoclonal so my bet is on this triple threat but we'll have to see which cocktail really works. >> reporter: a flurry of punches, all in hopes of knocking out a virus that is so far proved to be an elus

everybody will get remdesivir. >> reporter: the doctor is using two clinical trials to use interferon in the uk and hong kong to treat covid-19 patients successfully. >> it's readily available. if the study shows it will be effective, people can just go out and get it. >> reporter: the results of this trial are projected for late fall. san francisco, abc7 news. >>> this morning, we're learning more about a troubling similarity in many children who have covid-19, a mysterious ailment misc. according to two reports from the cdc yesterday, it was found in 73 of 570 children under 18 also confirmed to have covid-19 from march to july. at least 29 here in california. it can cause severe abdominal pain, heart trouble, fevers and more, even though most cases in younger people are mild, the number who have coronavirus is growing. >>> south bay may become the latest county to threaten fines for people and businesses not following public health guidelines. what make thisl different, if it's a violation that can be fixed, the person or business would have between 24 and 48 hours to do so. the su

. >> right, and that's what's frustrating from gilead, the company that has remdesivir for covid.ore remdesivir, the company had really been struggling because it hadn't had that blockbuster drug since it had a treatment five years ago. and that's the thing, you know, as you noted, covid treatments and vaccines won't be those blockbuster things, but, you know, this pipeline that these companies have, there's been some bad news on the other drugs, you know, for other diseases occupant there. so for gilead it was their arthritis drug that did not get fda approval. jack: an interesting dynamic in the industry, the etf idp which is capitalization weighted has done okay, but xbi which is equal waited and emphasizes the smaller stocks has done a lot better and that's because i think a lot of these smaller stocks are seen as takeover candidates as these bigger companies try to juice their growth. >>> coming up, how lemonade aims to completely change the way you think about your insurance i wanted more from my copd medicine, that's why i've got the power of 1,2,3 medicines with trelegy. t

even if you have private insurance, remdesivir could cost you about $3100 per patient. >>> uncertainty is pushing some parents to explore other options now during this new school year including home schooling. this entire week we have dedicated to back to school. the home school association of california says that they usually recommend parents use charter schools. it is a public school option that offers resources and teachers support for home schooling. however that isn't an option right now because of the state legislation limits funds. now the usual 40 to 50 person wait list is a whole lot longer. >> in year i'm hearing i'm 300, i'm 700 on the wait list. it is just about growth. >> the national center for education statistics reports the top reason for help schooling comes from concern over education environment and that includes safety. if you want more information about school, you can check out our interactive map at abc7news.com. just hover over your location to find the details and we are constantly updating the man as new information comes in. >>> happening today, alaska airl

we got them a lot of treatments and therapies to the states, including nearly 70,000 vials of remdesivir. and up to treat over 11,000 patients. it has been very successful. my administration also delivered ppe and point of care testing to over 100 nursing homes. the federal government has provided massive amounts of masks, equipment and gowns. you know some of those numbers. arizona was a big inefficient erie. they very much appreciated it. more than 1000 national guard a medical personnel have been deployed in arizona. they have really helped. there have been terrific and i want to think them -- think them -- thank them. we have supported our tribal communities. they were hit very hard. governor ducey and i delivered rapid testing systems to the model donations, which has been in bad shape, now getting better very quickly. the navajo nation now has one of the highest levels of testing per capita anywhere in the world. really worked very hard on the tribal areas. in this case, the navajo nation, they have done incredibly well. arizona has conducted over 1.1 million tests. more than the e

the methods that officials at health and human services are using to district the critical drug remdesivir. dr. peter chong complained the system is secretive and inconsistent. >> the capriciousness and lack of transparency that's troubling to all of us. we don't know what logic formula is being used by the federal government to determine which state gets what. >> reporter: he says the inconsistencies have made it more difficult to plan treatment for some covid patients. >> we were on the edge of the cliff so many last week where we saw patients on remdesivir and not having enough to finish the course but then hoping the shipment would come in. >> reporter: a doctor says the situation has been somewhat better at stanford in part because the hospital was given a waiver to use doses of remdesivir leftover from an earlier critical trial. still, she says doctors have worked hard to conserve their supplies. >> there have been times we've been quite low, and we've all spent sleepless nights worrying am i overusing the supply, am i underusing it sph. >> reporter: the drug's manufacturing is of co

remdesivir, plasma and other treatments. yesterday president trump visited the american red cross headquarters to hold a round table on donating plasma. this initiative will empower americans to help their fellow americans in battling the virus. these critical investments in a crire vaccine are due to the fact that we have a businessman in the white house. according to "the wall street journal," quote, democrats blame the u.s. case surge on inadequate testing and contact trace bug the u.s. has averaged two to three times more tests per capita than most european and asian countries, indeed, we've done more than 59 million tests with india at number two with just about 14 million tests. so quite a difference there. arizona, california, florida and texas all were doing more tests per capita when they lifted their lockdowns. more per capita an germany, spain, france an south korea has average. the u.s. is ethe undisputed world leader in testing and on top of the more than 59 million tests we have done, the f.d.a. authorized more

half of those enrolled will get remdesivir plus the placebo. the other half will get rem des fear plus the new drug. >> half the patients will get this under the skin injection i think over four days every other day and half the patients will get a pretend under the skin drug which will end up being placebo, but everyone will get remdesivir. >> reporter: the doctor has been studying two clineical trials that used interferem in the u.k. and hong kong to treat covid patients successfully. >> it's readily available so if the study shows it's going to be effective people can just go out and get it. >> reporter: the results of this trial are projected for late fall. luce pena, abc 7 news. >>> santa clara county may become the latest bay area county to threaten fines for people and businesses not following public health guidelines. what makes this proposal different, though, if it's a violation that can be fixed the person or business would have between 24 and 72 hours to do so. the board of supervisors is set to vote on tuesday. >>> happening now wi

half of those enrolld will get remdesivir plus a placebo. the other half will get rem remdesivir plus the ms drug. >> half will get over four days and half the patients will get a pretend under the skin drug which will end up being placebo, but everyone will get remdesivir. >> the has been studying two clinical trials to treat covid-19 patients successfully. >> it's readily available so if the study shows it's going to be effective people can just go out and get it. >> the results of this trial are projected for late fall. in san francisco luce pena, abc 7 news. >>> this morning we're learning more about a troubling similarity in many of the children who have covid-19. a mysterious ailment known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome or misc, according to two discuss reports yesterday the condition was found in 203 of the 570 children under 18 who were also confirmed to have covid-19 from march to july. at least 29 here in california. it can cause severe abnominal pain, heart trouble, fevers and more. even though most cases in younger people a

remdesivir, we're really doing a job with it and it is helping a lot of people.t is why you see the fatalities and mortality numbers looking very good, relatively speaking that is. but that is for american hospitals through the month of september. so we have remdesivir at a very high level for hospitals through the month of september. that's big news. the united states also is far and away the most robust testing capacity in the world. testing has been incredible what we've been able to do. nobody is even close. since march 12th we've increased daily testing by 32,000 percent. how is that? 32,000%. somebody would say that must be a typo. that is not a typo. 32,000%. we have now conducted over 61 million tests nationwide, averaging over 820,000 tests per day and nearly five million tests per week. now that we're understanding the virus, we're understanding very much what we're doing with respect to who it affects, who it is destroying and who gets away with it like young people, very young people, we'll be having some interesting statements having to do with testi

we've secured another remdesivir to treat over 650 patients. on saturday i took executive action in signing to save american jobs and support american workers. i signed directives to give a payroll tax holiday with the understanding that after the election on the assumption that it will be victorious for an administration that's done a great job, we will be ending that text, we will be terminating that tax. on the other hand, the other group wants to raise taxes and they may want to leave it where you pay it but the payroll tax is a big deal for people, it's a tremendous savings for people and we are going to be doing it and we intend to terminated at the end of the appropriate period of time. it's for those making less than $100,000 through the end of 2020 to provide an extra $400 per week also in unemployment benefits and to extend the freeze on home evictions. we want to extend the freeze so people aren't evicted. it's not that their fault that the virus came from china. it's china's fault and to suspend payments on student loans through the

we have secured enough remdesivir to treat over 36,000 patients. -- over 650,000 patients. on saturday, i took executive action to save american jobs and support american workers. i signed executive directives to give a payroll tax holiday with the understanding that, after the election, on the assumption that it would be victorious for an administration that has done a great job, we will be ending that tax, terminating that tax. on the other hand, the other group wants to raise taxes, and they may want to leave it where you pay it, but the payroll taxes are a big deal for people. it is a tremendous saving for people, and we are going to be doing it, and we intend to terminate it at the end of the appropriate period of time. it is for those making less than $100,000 until the end of 2020 to provide an extra $400 per week also in unemployment benefits and to extend the freeze on home evictions. we want to extend the freeze of -- freeze so people are not evicted. it is not their fault that the virus came from china. it is china's fault. and to suspend payments on student loan

pfizer announced it will create -- it will manufacture gilead's drug remdesivir.ast week alone, my administration procured and distributed over 120,000 vials of remdesivir, enough to treat more than 19,000 patients. plausible treatments continue to show incredibly encouraging results, really incredible what is going on. if you can go to a blood bank if have had this disease and beat it, go to a blood bank and donate. that would be a tremendous help. the united states is only 5% of the world's population, but we have conducted over 25% of the world's testing. think of that. any global analysis of confirmed cases must really take this into account, because we are constantly showing cases, cases, cases are up. the reason cases are up, we are doing a lot of testing, more than anyone else. close to 65 million tests, where other countries have done very little testing. they test people if they get sick, going to the hospital. they will test certain people. we are doing tremendous testing and especially at the nursing homes. over the last week, the testing turnaround tim

general, but right now they produce something called -- they sell to make remdesivir.hat is a mouthful. you are aware, remdesivir is being used heavily as a treatment recover 19. so -- for covid-19. so i do not think the market is giving them credit for that. unlike big pharma where any individual drug is not going to forssarily move the needle a $2 billion market cap, this can really be meaningful. haidi: i want to throw up a chart taking a look at the divergence when it comes to fortunes in this rally. the ratio between big tech and u.s. small-cap now sitting at the highest gap we have seen since the dot-com bust. hen thees this tell you w news flow is pretty benign, yet you have two of the major stock markets still hitting fresh market highs? larmar: i think a lot of what we are seeing right now is people just pumping money into basically the s&p 500 index and the nasdaq. that is really compounding the situation. so you are seeing a lot of rise in some of these companies for no reason than they are already big, so the big get bigger. i do not think that is a long-te

half of those enrolled will get remdesivir plus the placebo. the other half will get rem des fear plus the new drug. >> half the patients will get this under the skin injection i think over four days every other day and half the patients will get a pretend under the skin drug which will end up being placebo, but everyone will get remdesivir. >> reporter: the doctor has been studying two clineical trials that used interferem in the u.k. and hong kong to treat covid patients successfully. >> it's readily available so if the study shows it's going to be effective people can just go out and get it. >> reporter: the results of this trial are projected for late fall. luce pena, abc 7 news. >>> santa clara county may become the latest bay area county to threaten fines for people and businesses not following public health guidelines. what makes this proposal different, though, if it's a violation that can be fixed the person or business would have between 24 and 72 hours to do so. the board of supervisors is set to vote on tuesday. >>> happening now wi

we've secured enough remdesivir to treat over 650,000 patients.n saturday i took executive action in signing to save american jobs and support american workers. i signed directives to give a payroll tax holiday with the understanding that after the election, or the assumption that it would be victorious for an administration that has done a great job. we will be ending that tax, we will be terminating that tax. on the other hand the other group wants to raise taxes and they may want to leave it where you pay it but the payroll tax is a big deal for people. it is a tremendous savings for people and we're going to be doing it. we intend to terminate it at the end of the appropriate period of time. it's for those making less than $100,000 to the end of 2020, to provide an extra $400 per week, also in unemployment benefits and to extend a freeze on home evictions. we want to extend the freeze so people are not evicted. it is not their fault that the virus came from china. it is china's fault. to us spend payments on student loans through the end of th