As Florida remains a hotspot for growth in the number of coronavirus cases, GOP Sen. Marco Rubio complains that hospitals may become overcrowded due to a lack of the drug Remdesivir
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a former rival of President Donald Trump, complained on social media Thursday about the insufficient availability of the breakthrough Covid-19 drug Remdesivir, blaming a “bad disconnect,” with the federal government and surfacing as one of the few Republican rebukes of the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic....
Gilead Sciences’ research on Remdesivir shows better outcomes for coronavirus patients than past treatments, and even though Alex Azar, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, said Trump has bought the world’s entire supply, shortages in the U.S.
Rubio’s relationship with Trump has seesawed with Rubio generally backing the president, as he put aside past barbs when candidate Trump repeatedly referred to him as “Little Mario.
Part of the supply issue is that the drug must come from the federal government, which has created a bottleneck, accordingAccording to FasterCures, a program of the Milken Institute, there were at least 197 vaccines and 271 treatments in some phase of development as of Wednesday.
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