South Carolina distributes doses of Remdesivir drug for treating COVID-19 patients

South Carolina has been provided with a limited supply of Remdesivir, the drug that recently received an emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating patients with COVID-19. The FDA states that the investigational drug was shown during a clinical trial to shorten the recovery time in some COVID-19 patients. Since then, the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences donated vials of Remdesivir to the U.S….