Hospitals Can’t Get Enough Remdesivir, Have Too Much Hydroxychloroquine

By John Wilkerson, Ariel Cohen / June 1, 2020 at 2:25 PM
Hospitals don’t have enough remdesivir, the only drug shown to somewhat help treat coronavirus infections, but they have far too much hydroxychloroquine, which increasingly doesn’t seem to be of help to COVID-19 patients. The daily death rate from COVID-19 has slowed, but it could pick back up now that the public is venturing out, and the George Floyd protests are a vector for the virus. Hospitals have already been preparing in recent weeks for another wave of COVID-19 patients, and...


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