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In early 2020, Kentucky lawmaker's wife bought stock in a company that developed coronavirus treatment.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul waited more than a year to disclose that his wife purchased stock in a company that makes a COVID-19 treatment, an investment made after Congress was briefed on the threat of the virus but before the public was largely aware of its danger. The Republican filed a mandatory disclosure Wednesday revealing on Feb. 26, 2020 that Kelley Paul purchased somewhere between $1,001 and $15,000 worth of stock in Gilead, which makes the antiviral drug remdesivir. Word of the looming danger posed by the coronavirus began to spread through Congress in late January 2020, after members received the first of several briefings on the economic and public health threat that it posed.

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U.S. stock indexes closed mostly higher Friday, though the S&P 500 posted its first weekly loss in four weeks. Treasury yields remained near their highest levels since June. Before this week, the S&P 500 had notched a weekly gain three weeks in a row. American Express fell 3.6% and chipmaker Intel sank 10.6%, the biggest decline in the S&P 500, after reporting weakness in its data center business. Treasury yields dipped but remain near their highest levels since June.

NEW YORK – When she learned that Ethan Hawke was working on a special audio edition of her acclaimed novel “Gilead,” Marilynne Robinson's response was to get a better idea of who he was. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2005, ”Gilead” is the first of four Robinson novels set in a rural Iowa community in the 1950s. Hawke has recorded an abridged narrative of “Gilead” that was commissioned by Manhattan's 92nd Street Y and can he heard Oct. 19-29 via www.92y.org/gilead. “In ‘Gilead,’ the Reverend John Ames contemplates ‘grace as a sort of ecstatic fire that takes things down to essentials,'" he said. ‘Gilead' is a great American novel, and Ethan Hawke is a great American actor."

The governor’s office said Newsom was tested on Wednesday after someone in the governor’s office tested positive. The staff member who tested positive had not interacted with Newsom or anyone else who often sees the governor. ___HARTFORD, Conn. -- Dr. Deborah Birx of the White House coronavirus task force says she is concerned about the uptick in coronavirus cases in the Northeast. The virus has killed at least 5,416 people in Louisiana, according to the state health department. A cluster of fewer than 20 people tested positive for the virus at the Nashville Rescue Mission’s facility for women and children, Brian Todd said.

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – Family, friends and colleagues of a beloved elementary school teacher are hoping for a miracle for Stefanie Miller. But at Memorial West, where Miller is being treated, the hospital is not one that was selected by the federal government or Gilead to give her the drug. Memorial West was not one of the hospitals chosen by the federal government or Gilead. Memorial Regional in Hollywood, is one of them, but not Memorial West. Miller, a second-grade teacher at Fox Trail Elementary in Davie, was working from her hospital bed up until recently.

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Lyft stock was up nearly 4% Wednesday afternoon, amid a broader market rally. The layoffs account for 17% of the workforce, Lyft said. Lyft also has implemented reductions in base salary for employees exempt from the layoffs and furloughs for a 12-week period. The salary cuts, which begin in May, will consist of a 30% reduction for executive leadership, 20% for vice presidents and 10% for all other exempt employees, Lyft said. Lyft said it expects to incur $28 million to $36 million in restructuring and related charges from the layoffs, primarily related to employee severance and benefits.

U.S. stocks surged Friday after promising results from Gilead's remdesivir coronavirus drug trial. I have been saying bet up in quality and if you look over the last few weeks, it is the companies with a better balance sheet. Now a few companies in tech, in health care, some very essential consumer staples are going to have similar or better earnings, but most will not; not this year, not next year. "I think what you've seen is an incredible recovery and if you define a bull market as a 20% rise, we're in a new bull market. We didn't transfer money to the states and that's a headwind in the second half of 2020 and into 2021.

Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks told CNBC on Friday that his company aims to start testing a treatment for the globally spreading coronavirus in the coming months. Eli Lilly will assist in replicating the antibodies that may respond to the virus to produce and manufacture a drug, he said. Eli Lilly and AbCellera are not alone in the race to create a treatment to slow the spread of the disease. Eli Lilly will be responsible for all further development, manufacturing and distribution of the product. Goldman Sachs on Wednesday placed Eli Lilly on its "Conviction Buy" list saying that the drugmaker's growth profile ranks among the strongest in the U.S. large-cap biopharma sector.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A Florida resident was diagnosed with the new coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, in Washington state, authorities said on Wednesday. Ron DeSantis said the patient, who is in isolation, “had been traveling in Asia, probably in China.” The Centers for Disease Control considers this a Florida case even though the diagnosis was in Washington, DeSantis said. A New York man who had recently traveled to Miami was diagnosed with the coronavirus, Gov. One Florida patient is in Manatee County and the other two Florida patients -- who were diagnosed after traveling to Italy -- are in Hillsborough County. Fauci also told the Senate on Tuesday that pharmaceutical company Gilead is testing a potential treatment.