The US government has bought up virtually the entire global supply of remdesivir, the only drug approved in the nation to treat coronavirus, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday. Gilead Sciences, which makes remdesivir, has already donated about 120,000 treatment courses of the drug to the US stockpile - a supply set to run out next month. 'To the extent possible, we want to ensure that any American patient who needs remdesivir can get it. National Institutes of Health (NIH) tests of remdesivir indicated that patients treated with the drug recovered d31 percent faster than those who got a placebo. Just over seven percent of those on remdesivir died, compared to 11.9 percent of those on not on the drug.

Source: Daily Mail June 30, 2020 23:11 UTC