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After Fighting for Her Life, Clovis Community COVID Patient Goes Home

May 20, 2020

After 35 days on a ventilator battling COVID-19, Karen Parker-Bryant is resting comfortably at home. Parker-Bryant was admitted to Clovis Community Medical Center on April 2. She missed her 64th birthday on April 16th because she was in a battle for her lif...

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UCSF Fresno Doctor: ‘Remdesivir Should Be Given to Anyone’ to Fight COVID

Jim Jakobs

May 19, 2020

"In a perfect world, remdesivir should be given to anyone," says Dr. Eyad Almasri of UCSF Fresno. Dr. Almasri made the comments during a teleconference with reporters and the Fresno County Department of Publ...

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FDA Allows Emergency Use of Remdesivir for Coronavirus

AP News

May 1, 2020

WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators on Friday allowed emergency use of an experimental drug that appears to help some coronavirus patients recover faster. It is the first drug shown to help fight COVID-19, which ha...

Fauci Calls Experimental COVID-19 Drug Treatment ‘Standard of Care’ After Promising Results

AP News

April 29, 2020

Scientists on Wednesday announced the first effective treatment against the coronavirus — an experimental drug that can speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients — in a major medical advance that came as the economic gloom caused by the scourge deepened in the U...

Company Says Drug Proved Effective Against Virus in US Study

AP News

April 29, 2020

A biotech company says its experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major U.S. government study that put it to a strict test. Gilead Sciences’s remdesivir would be the first tr...

UCSF-Fresno Doctor Uses ‘Promising’ Drug on Covid-19 Patients

Jim Jakobs

April 17, 2020

It's a four-syllable drug we may need to all learn by next month: "remdesivir." GV Wire spoke with the UCSF-Fresno doctor leading a local study on the drug. Dr. Eyad Almasri says he's already given the drug ...

NorCal Doctor: Not Everyone Needs COVID-19 Testing

Jim Jakobs

April 10, 2020

"We almost don't need them for everybody," Dr. Roberta Luskin-Hawk says of COVID-19 tests. Her reasoning is explained below, but it also comes from a wealth of medical experience. She is an infectious disease specialist who worked with Dr. Anthony Fauci in ...

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Coronavirus Patients Rush to Join Studies of Gilead Drug

AP News

April 6, 2020

The new coronavirus made Dr. Jag Singh a patient at his own hospital. His alarm grew as he saw an X-ray of his pneumonia-choked lungs and colleagues asked his wishes about life support while wheeling him into M...

UC Davis Uses Antiviral Drug Remdesivir on ‘Very Grave’ COVID-19 Patient. She’s Home Now.

Jim Jakobs

April 1, 2020

UC Davis Medical Center received the first case of community transmission of COVID-19 in the U.S. on Feb. 26. Within 24 hours of admission, the female patient's respiratory status deteriorated. Because of th...

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After Fighting for Her Life, Clovis Community COVID Patient Goes Home

UCSF Fresno Doctor: ‘Remdesivir Should Be Given to Anyone’ to Fight COVID

FDA Allows Emergency Use of Remdesivir for Coronavirus

Fauci Calls Experimental COVID-19 Drug Treatment ‘Standard of Care’ After Promising Results

Company Says Drug Proved Effective Against Virus in US Study

UCSF-Fresno Doctor Uses ‘Promising’ Drug on Covid-19 Patients

NorCal Doctor: Not Everyone Needs COVID-19 Testing

Coronavirus Patients Rush to Join Studies of Gilead Drug

UC Davis Uses Antiviral Drug Remdesivir on ‘Very Grave’ COVID-19 Patient. She’s Home Now.

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