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An experimental antiviral drug is showing some positive results in treating patients with COVID-19.In a press conference Thursday, President Donald Trump and FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn said chloroquine, a drug long used to treat malaria, and remdesivir are being looked at as potential treatments for the virus.
(Remdesivir was previously used to treat humans who contracted Ebola.)
Susan Kane, a guest on Fox News’ “The Story,” told host Martha MacCallum that her husband tested positive for the Chinese virus after he returned home from a business trip to Florida, and she was willing to give remdesivir a try after hearing about it being used on an experimental basis.
Kane also contracted the virus, but her symptoms cleared up on their own, but she is “100,000 percent convinced that the drug saved her husband’s life,” MacCallum said in setting up the segment.
“When my husband started to get very sick, I just thought that’s where I want to take him,” Kane said. “We could have gone to about four different hospitals, but I wanted to take him to Providence [Regional Medical Center in Everett, Wash.] because I heard the first patient survived. I didn’t know why, but I heard that he survived.”