White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday he was “hopeful” that in a few days there will be an announcement about new treatments for COVID-19.
“We are hopeful that with some of the advanced technologies in therapeutics, we will be able to announce some new therapies in the coming days,” Meadows said in an interview with ABC News.
The former North Carolina congressman spent the weekend working with Republican senators to draft a stimulus bill to offset the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Meadows did not elaborate on what the new therapies might be.
“I hope that, in the coming days, we have very good news on the therapeutic and vaccine fronts, as we try to tackle this virus from China,” he repeated in the interview.
The virus has sickened 4.2 million Americans, killed 146,000 and left tens of millions at least temporarily unemployed. Treatments for the virus include the antiviral medication remdesivir and the convalescent blood plasma of survivors.
The race to develop a vaccine is expected to be completed by the end of 2020 at the latest, according to White House coronavirus task force member Anthony Fauci.
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