Hospitals are stuck waiting for supplies of a promising coronavirus treatment to arrive, days after health authorities OK'd its emergency use
Dr. Tony Reed, the chief medical officer at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, has seen remdesivir in action. The hospital system gave the drug to patients in trials to help figure out how well the coronavirus treatment works.on Friday, saying the treatment could help some severely ill patients recover more quickly, Reed and the team at Temple expected that they'd get more access to the medication.
As the government figures out which hospitals will get the drug, severely ill patients who should qualify for treatment aren't getting it, doctors across the country told Business Insider.In some cases, hospitals don't have the drug on hand yet, or aren't able to give it to patients outside the narrow confines of clinical trials. Clinicians said they aren't sure when it will come or how much supply they'll get.
Any delay may be harmful to patients. Antivirals like remdesivir generally work better when given earlier on in the course of an infection. Gilead Sciences, the biotech company that makes remdesivir, has put out some preliminary data suggesting that may be the case with this drug as well.
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