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TUESDAY, March 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Strong demand for medications that show promise as treatments for COVID-19 have led to shortages of those drugs in the United States.<\/p>\n
The antiviral drug remdesivir is one of those medications. It is made by California-based Gilead Sciences, which noted “an exponential increase in compassionate use requests. This has flooded an emergency treatment access system,” CBS News<\/i> reported. That overwhelming demand forced the company to put remdesivir on hold for compassionate use.<\/p>\n
Another drug that has shown promise against COVID-19 is hydroxychloroquine, and lupus patients who rely on the drug are now facing dangerous shortages. “If people without symptoms are hoarding this medication, it means many lives may potentially be lost,” Brooklyn-based Jinesh Patel, M.D., told CBS News<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is allowing more testing of drugs that may be effective against COVID-19, and those on the front lines of the battle against the pandemic are eager for such testing to begin.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in the United States, more than 50,000 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed, with 100 new deaths reported on Monday alone, bringing the country’s death toll to 677, according to Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n
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