Hospitals and physicians around the country are sharply criticizing the federal government for the uneven and opaque way it is distributing its supply of the Covid-19 drug remdesivir.
from a clinical trial showed that it reduced how long it took hospitalized Covid-19 patients to recover. Now, as the drug's producer, Gilead Sciences, tries to ramp up production, the U.S. government is starting to distribute the limited number of vials that aren't needed for ongoing research, so that patients can start to see the benefit outside of clinical trials.
Even medical centers chosen to receive the drug were in the dark. "I legitimately do not have any insight into how hospitals were selected," said Paul Biddinger, director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Disaster Medicine and one of the leader's of the hospital's pandemic response. Not so for remdesivir. "Currently there is no way anywhere I've seen to figure out how this is being distributed or how they're making decisions about this," Ison said.
"I'm scared and nervous," said Peter Chin-Hong, a UCSF infectious disease doctor. "There are places that are having a lot more cases than California. But what I'm worried about is, are we ever going to get it [remdesivir]? What is the speed at which we're going to get it? And which hospitals in the area are going to get it if we're going to get it at all."
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