We’re running out of the only coronavirus drug that works

[Chris Smith]

• The only effective coronavirus treatment approved for standard care so far will run out at the end of this month, the US government said.
• Our supply of remdesivir is expected to be depleted by June 29th, and Gilead likely won't be able to deliver more until this summer, as manufacturing efforts increase.
• Gilead plans to have more than 500,000 treatment courses by October, and more than 1 million by December.

The race to develop vaccines and new drugs for the novel coronavirus is promising, but it'll be months before they could be ready. Once they're approved, there will be a limited supply at first and it might take a few more months for the drugs to be widely available. Separately, doctors have obtained good results at repurposing some of the existing drugs to treat COVID-19 patients, with several clinical trials aimed at offering new treatment protocols for the disease. But only one of them was officially confirmed to be effective in certain types of COVID-19 cases. That's remdesivir, the drug that Gilead Sciences developed for Ebola. However, the available supply will run out at the end of the month in the US, and more doses are not expected to be available until later this year.

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