We are using it less and less where I work; the physicians are speaking of it not really working. One thinks they hold off too late until they become ICU bound when the person is real sick and the drug is too toxic at that point.
My personal opinion is that they haven’t worked out how much or how little they need the patients to stay hydrated. They’ll give the REM but they di-urese(lasix or bumex) the hell out of people because the theory is that if the lungs are too moist it sets up ARDS, the tissue killing cytokine storms and pneumonia. I asked one doctor if they over diurese sometimes and the patient’s get toxic with the Remdesivir further harming the kidneys. She replied that she wasn’t even sure REM did anything at all. The whole of medical science is a mess since Zeke Immanuel took a political hack saw to it during the Obama administration!
Homo Sapiens have a choice:
“Trust the science”
or
“Live long and prosper”
You cannot do both.