Why limited to only the drugs from the stockpile? Won’t that delay treatment while the drugs are sent out?
Why limted to only current hospital patients. New hospital patients out of luck?
Why limited to patients weighing at least 110 pounds? Don’t want no short people round here?
It seems to me that if you test positive and showing symptoms, you should get the drug. Not wait until the patient needs hospitalization.
“Why limited to only the drugs from the stockpile? Won’t that delay treatment while the drugs are sent out?”
No. there’s a nationwide shortage of these drugs right now, and these donations to the national strategic stockpile present a desperately needed massive new infusion of these drugs into the system ...
It should be prescribed before hospitalization. I hope this will change. Maybe it’s because of the current supply. The supply is about to increase dramatically and when that happens, there’s no excuse for not prescribing it for everyone with symptoms. Then it could be prescribed for use prophylactically - like for malaria.
Doctors here in upstate NY have been prescribing it for weeks now.