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Hopes turn to virus drug breakthrough as economies stumble

by Associated Press
| April 29, 2020 11:03 PM

The promise of an effective treatment against the coronavirus — an experimental drug that can speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients — raised hopes Thursday for faster progress in battling the pandemic and restoring wrecked economies and livelihoods.

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