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According to a doctor with the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US is running out of the only drug known to help with Covid-19, remdesivir.
He says the drug will run out the end of the month.
Gilead Sciences, the company that makes the drug, is raming up production and hopes to have more this summer.
However it is unclear how much will be available.
In the long term the company plans to have more than 500 thousand treatment courses available by October and more than a million by December.
Though the drug is not a cure, a study shows remdesivir reduces the number of days coronavirus patients spend in the hospital.
Meanwhile the global coronavirus death toll passed 400 thousand this weekend, a reminder that despite reopenings the pandemic is still an ongoing threat.
In the US there are over 110 thousand deaths as the country approaches two million confirmed cases.
Posted – 6.8.20