Frustrated doctors push administration to reveal which hospitals are getting remdesivir -- and why
How do I hate them? Let me count the ways... Sure as I'm sitting here, they're killing even more people.
Frustrated doctors push administration to reveal which hospitals are getting remdesivir — and why
About 25 hospitals have been approved to receive the drug, but doctors say it’s not clear how the government is making those decisions.
By ZACHARY BRENNAN
05/07/2020 07:17 PM EDT
Doctors across the country are demanding that the Trump administration explain how it is distributing the sole drug proven to help coronavirus patients to hospitals.
Physicians and infectious-disease experts say that the government has so far ignored some medical centers that are treating large numbers of coronavirus patients. The drug’s maker, Gilead, has donated an unspecified number of doses to the government, which has put HHS and FEMA in charge of doling out the drug to hospitals.
So far the rollout has been chaotic. About 25 hospitals have been approved to receive the drug, but doctors say it’s not clear how the government — through its contractor, AmerisourceBergen — is making those decisions. A spokesperson for the company said the administration is choosing which facilities receive the drug and how much they get.
Adding to the confusion, a senior HHS official told POLITICO that the government has not finalized its plan for distributing remdesivir.
That has frustrated doctors on the front lines of the pandemic. “The plan for distributing remdesivir should be transparent and should be based on state and regional Covid-19 case data and hospitalization rates,” the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the HIV Medicine Association said in a letter Wednesday to Vice President Mike Pence.
Yet Boston Medical Center, its city’s largest public safety-net hospital, “got none,” Benjamin Linas, an epidemiologist at the hospital, tweeted on Wednesday. “We have the second highest absolute case count and highest per bed in Boston,” he wrote. “We also had no access to early trials. Today, the family of a dying patient asked me why we do not have RDV. What am I supposed to say?”
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/07/trump-administration-remdesivir-hospitals-243833
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with trump, and gang, it's "ALWAYS" about the money!
Go to the trump 2020 web site and donate more than $1000.
That unlocks choices under the merchandise button. You can get remdesivir, n95 masks, hydroxochloroquinine (at bargain prices), covid tests and toilet paper.
If I were an evil genius I would set up a spoofed site, drop the minimum to $100 and make some bank. The risk is I’d have to make over $100 million to qualify for the premium level justice system status before getting arrested or I might have to do some jail time. The fine at premium is in the 1-5 million range. It’d be even be cool to hit 3 million because then I’d have the record.
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