Trump's physician says he has taken his first dose of remdesivir, one of the leading drugs for treating the coronavirus, and is 'doing very well'

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the first 2020 presidential campaign debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, held on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., September 29, 2020.

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• Trump has taken his first dose of remdesivir, an experimental COVID-19 treatment, and is "doing very well," White House physician Sean Conley said in a memo Friday evening.
• Conley said the president "is not requiring any supplemental oxygen," has completed his first dose of the drug, and is "resting comfortably."
• Remdesivir's maker, Gilead Sciences, turned the failed Ebola drug into one of the first effective coronavirus treatments.
• Trump has also received Regeneron's experimental antibody drug, according to Conley.
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