Experimental Drug Coming To Local Hospitals

Experimental Drug Coming To Local Hospitals

-some hospitals in the state will receive an experimental drug to treat coronavirus patients.

The drug remdesivir will be sent to hospitals who have a patient eligible for the treatment.

Waay 31's rodneya ross is live outside huntsville hospital this morning.

Rodneya -- do we know which hospitals in the area are getting the drug?

This morning it's not clear if any hospitals in north alabama will receive the drug -- but we do know at least one dose is being delivered to each hospital that has an eligible patient.

Hospitals are getting the drug because of a large donation from gilead sciences incorporated 607-thousand vials will be donated to states across the u-s over the next six weeks ... that should treat 78- thousand patients!

The medicine arrived in alabama yesterday is being distributed to hospitals overnight.

This morning at the news conference with city leaders we plan to ask the c-e-o of huntsville hospital -- david spillers -- if any of the hospitals in their system received the drug overnight.

We'll also be working to learn if any other hospitals in north alabama received the donated drug.

Reporting live in hsv, rr, waay 31 news.

Last month - crestwood medical center ceo doctor pam hudson said remdesivir has been in north alabama for weeks.

She said doctors took early steps to make sure it was ready to be used for north alabamians who