PM Justin Trudeau said while the food supply chain in Canada faces challenges, he will not force meat processing plants to remain open as President Trump has done. “The priority for us is both things; keeping people safe and ensuring a good supply of food'
From CNN's Maggie FoxOne of the first carefully done studies of the antiviral drug remdesivir shows it did not help people recover faster from coronavirus infections. But the study, conducted in China, may have been too small to show clearly whether the drug helps.
The study conducted in China was stopped early because there weren’t enough patients, but it indicated that the drug did not work as hoped, the team reported in the Lancet medical journal on Wednesday. Some details of this study were posted last week on the World Health Organization’s website, then removed.
The team at China-Japan Friendship Hospital and Capital Medical University in China tested the drug using 237 coronavirus patients in Wuhan.
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