Coronavirus live updates: Cuomo calls NY situation ‘unsustainable’, Sanofi says it can mass produce vaccine, if it works
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- Global cases: More than 2,204,500
- Global deaths: At least 149,024
- US cases: More than 679,300
- US deaths: At least 33,898
The data above was compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
2:15 pm: Biotech stocks surge as people are ‘hungry’ for good news on the coronavirus
Biotech stocks surged after new details on a closely watched clinical trial lifted hopes that scientists may be close to a treatment for the coronavirus.
The IBB, an ETF that tracks biotech’s biggest players, was up more than 3% after health-care publication STAT News revealed early impressions from one of Gilead Sciences‘ clinical trials for antiviral drug remdesivir. The University of Chicago found that patients with Covid-19 had “rapid recoveries in fever and respiratory …continued .
[Source: CNBC News]
