How to Use remdesivir in a Sentence

remdesivir

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• People with the means to do so are shelling out on the black market as much as 10 times the cost of a single vial of remdesivir.
  — Vikas Dandekar, STAT, 28 Apr. 2021
• The duo was selling a couple of doses of remdesivir for Rs1.16 lakh.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2021
• Now comes a new study that offers the prospect of home treatment via inhaled remdesivir.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• As polymerase inhibitors, remdesivir and favipiravir are the same class of drug, Abbas said.
  — Naomi Xu Elegant, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2020
• Trump is scheduled to receive his fifth and final dose of remdesivir Tuesday.
  — NBC News, 5 Oct. 2020
• At this point, it was decided to treat the patient intravenously with a ten day course of remdesivir.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• However, Gilead Sciences, which makes remdesivir, has begun to study the effect of an inhaled version of the drug.
  — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2020
• The man needed remdesivir, Deshpande said, but the hospital didn’t have the medication and his friend had to procure it on his own.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2021
• The Surin family, from the city of Lucknow, recently paid more than $1,400 to a middleman for six doses of remdesivir.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2021
• Croft was given remdesivir and transferred to Johns Hopkins, where he was put on a ventilator.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
• While doctors and hospitals are not obliged to follow the WHO's advice, the recommendation could curb the use of remdesivir.
  — NBC News, 20 Nov. 2020
• The antiviral remdesivir helps decrease the viral load by keeping the virus from replicating.
  — Marion Hart, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• Early in the course of infection, that trigger is the virus itself, so doctors reach for antivirals such as remdesivir.
  — Amber Dance Knowable Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2020
• Sharma told the Chronicle that the hospital system would likely replace the treatment with a three-day course of remdesivir.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 2 Jan. 2022
• The other two trials the FDA considered were conducted by Gilead, the company that makes remdesivir.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2020
• But the promise of the oral drugs — combined with the hurdles of committing space, resources, and nurses to providing outpatient remdesivir — led some to give up those plans.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 9 Jan. 2022
• The next step, Gottlieb said, is for the Food and Drug Administration to expand its authorization of remdesivir.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2021
• A week later, he was admitted to the hospital for a remdesivir infusion to speed his recovery, and he was discharged Feb. 23.
  — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• Gulick said people who have received intravenous remdesivir thus far have not seen their symptoms rebound in the days or weeks following the treatment the way people have with Paxlovid.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 29 Dec. 2022
• Gilead launched its study of remdesivir in people not yet hospitalized in September 2020.
  — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
• Unlike remdesivir, which is delivered by IV, molnupiravir can be taken in pill form.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Oct. 2021
• Since the first case arrived in the U.S. at the start of the year, medical professionals have gone from fumbling in the dark to better understanding which drugs work -- such as steroids and blood thinners, and the antiviral medicine remdesivir.
  — Olivia Raimonde, Bloomberg.com, 19 Sep. 2020
• Still, many hospitals will face challenges in ramping up remdesivir treatments.
  — Matthew Perrone, Dallas News, 25 Jan. 2022
• In fact, Carroll Hospital reports that about half of those hospitalized for the disease there have taken remdesivir to treat their symptoms.
  — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• He is given dexamethasone, a steroid used to reduce inflammation, and a second dose of remdesivir.
  — USA Today, 5 Oct. 2020
• Olszyk couldn’t speak to how much remdesivir could cost a Carroll Hospital patient, as insurance policies vary.
  — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• The president has received multiple doses of the antiviral drug remdesivir while at Walter Reed.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2020
• The drug remdesivir—in a trial partially supported by a pharma company—showed some success.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 8 Sep. 2021
• Those in the hospital with more severe cases have a few other options such as the antiviral medication remdesivir.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• Relatives of the sick have taken to social media with pleas seeking not only portable oxygen tanks, but also hospital beds and medicines such as remdesivir.
  — Andrew Jacobs and Chris Cameron New York Times, Star Tribune, 2 May 2021

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