The Times-Standard is reporting that St. Joseph Hospital has already started clinical trials of the antiviral drug remdesivir with a local COVID-19 patient. “They fell into the severe COVID category with dropping oxygen and thus were a candidate for the trial,” St. Joseph Health-Humboldt County CEO Roberta Luskin-Hawk told the Times-Standard‘s Ruth Schneider. The intravenous drug that […]
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St. Joseph Approved to Participate in Trials of Possible COVID-19 Drug
St. Joseph Hospital just announced that it has been cleared to participate in two national clinical trials of the anti-viral drug Remdesivir for treatment of moderate and severe cases of COVID-19. According to a press release, St. Joseph was proactive in seeking accelerated approval for the trials in Humboldt because it believes the drug has […]