Area hospitals are overwhelmed with coronavirus patients.
Vice President Mike Pence to send supplies of the drug to replenish hospitals depleted by the surging number of patients.found remdesivir shortened Covid patients’ hospital stays on average to 11 days with a 7.4% death rate versus 15 days with a 12.5% death rate for patients treated without the drug.
Senator Marco Rubio also tweeted about several hospitals with little-to-no supply of the drug, saying “shipments are coordinated by the federal govt & we have a bad disconnect between what they think we need & what we really need.” Baptist Health South Florida, the region’s largest not-for-profit healthcare organization and parent of six hospitals in South Florida, said it only has a few days supply of remdesivir remaining, reportsSimilarly, Sarasota Memorial Hospital is out of the drug as well as antibody-rich plasma from Covid-19 survivors, with 118 Covid-19 patients in its care as of Wednesday night, reports315,767.
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