Hospitals are stuck waiting for supplies of a promising coronavirus treatment to arrive, days after health authorities OK'd its emergency use

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• A promising coronavirus treatment called remdesivir was approved last week for emergency use in the US.
• Now, some hospitals are having a hard time getting the drug for their patients.
• The US government is deciding which hospitals will get the drug and how much they will get.
• Business Insider spoke with clinicians at 10 hospitals and health systems. Most said they weren't sure when, or whether, they'd get the drug.
• Click here to read the full story, available exclusively to BI Prime subscribers.

Dr. Tony Reed, the chief medical officer at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, has seen remdesivir in action. The hospital system gave the drug to patients in trials to help figure out how well the coronavirus treatment works.

When US regulators approved the emergency use of remdesivir on Friday, saying the treatment could help some severely ill patients recover more quickly, Reed and the team at Temple expected that they'd get more access to the medication.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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