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Changer. cnn's dr. gupta has more on what we are learning. >> this the a pretty big deal. in fact, a data safety monitoring board actually looked at the trial results. they're ongoing from merck and decided they looked so good that they actually wanted to stop the trial and encourage the company to go ahead and apply for emergency useful often sometimes they're stopped because it looks too futile. let me show you the data. basically, these were participants who were in the early stages of disease. it's very important. they weren't super sick. they weren't in the hospital certainly early. they ...