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Dr. Fauci says remdesivir will become ‘the standard of care’

Apr 29, 2020, 1:31 PM | Updated: Oct 8, 2024, 6:41 am

KIRO Radio’s Dave Ross and reporter Aaron Granillo cover today’s top headlines in coronavirus news.

First up, Dr. Anthony Fauci says remdesivir, an experimental drug originally used to fight Ebola, will likely become the standard of care for COVID-19 patients. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working now with the manufacturer to green-light the drug for widespread use.

Boeing CEO David Calhoun announced Wednesday that the company will cut 10 percent of its total workforce. What will this look like in Washington state?

Boeing reports $641 million in Q1 losses, cutting 10% of workforce

And Costco is now requiring all shoppers wear face masks in their stores.

Associated Press

UN-backed experts cite possible US war crimes in Iran strikes

GENEVA (AP) — Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body say they have found “reasonable grounds” to believe the United States committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including on a school in the southern city of Minab. The international fact-finding mission on Iran says the findings center on a […]

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Asian stocks are mixed after Wall Street slips following Fed’s rate hike decision

HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Thursday after Wall Street closed lower following the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike decision for the first time in three years. U.S. futures were higher. The quarter of a percentage point increase brings the Fed’s key rate to a target range of 3.75%-4.00%, as it attempts […]

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Alabama set to execute man for pawn shop killings months after his nitrogen gas execution blocked

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is set to execute a man Thursday night via lethal injection, three months after a judge’s ruling blocked the state from putting him to death with nitrogen gas. Jeffery Lee, 49, is scheduled to receive an injection beginning at 6 p.m. at south Alabama’s William C. Holman Correctional Facility for […]

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Former Syrian official convicted of torture under Assad faces sentencing in the US

A former Syrian military official convicted of torturing prisoners during President Bashar Assad’s regime is facing a possible decades-long prison sentence in the U.S. A federal judge in Los Angeles is scheduled to sentence Samir Ousman Alsheikh on Thursday. A jury found him guilty in March of one count of conspiracy to commit torture and […]

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A global AI safety strategy depends on US-China cooperation. They each see the other as the problem

HONG KONG (AP) — As concern rises over the risks of artificial intelligence, hopes for any kind of global approach depend on cooperation between the U.S. and China — superpowers that seem only to be more skeptical of each other’s AI strategy. AI governance is expected to be on the agenda in a meeting planned […]

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An aerial view of the aftermath of a news helicopter that crashed in Chatsworth, a neighborhood in ...

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LA news helicopter crashed in birthplace (and, arguably, epicenter) of ‘eye-in-the-sky’ reporting

Los Angeles has been viewed from above by news helicopters for nearly seven decades. When there was a wildfire, a mudslide or O.J. Simpson fleeing the police across its ribbons of highway, an “eye in the sky” tracked it and advised millions how to keep out of harm’s way. On Tuesday, one of those flying […]

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Dr. Fauci says remdesivir will become ‘the standard of care’