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COVID-19 Patients In Springfield Being Treated With Remdesvir

COVID-19 Patients In Springfield Being Treated With Remdesvir

COVID-19 Patients In Springfield Being Treated With Remdesvir

The state health department has shipped around 1,500 vials of Remdesivir to over 50 hospitals across Missouri.

Mercy and Cox in Springfield have treated one patient so far.

Even though many COVID-19 patients who become severely ill are older with pre-existing health problems, at Cox the patient treated was a 22 year-old pregnant woman who received both Remdesivir and plasma treatment.

A pulmonology specialist at CoxHealth says the woman made a miraculous recovery, going from needing significant support on a ventilator to not needing any oxygen at all.

Mercy provided less details about its one patient but says its seeing a good trend and encouraging results.

The studies on the experimental drug are ongoing, but nationwide Remdesivir has reduced the average recovery time from 15-to-11 days and death rates are down from 11 percent to 8 percent.

Remdesvir isn’t a cure is because while it attacks the virus, it does not help the other complications patients develop from the illness like lung or heart problems.

 

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