The Role of Remdesivir in South Africa: Preventing COVID-19 Deaths Through Increasing Intensive Care Unit Capacity. (6th July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nichols, Brooke E; Jamieson, Lise; Zhang, Sabrina R C; Rao, Gabriella A; Silal, Sheetal; Pulliam, Juliet R C; Sanne, Ian; Meyer-Rath, Gesine
• Is Part Of: Clinical infectious diseases. Volume 72:Number 9(2021)
• Page Start: 1642
• Page End: 1644
• Publication Date: 2020-07-06
• Subjects: SARS-CoV-2 -- COVID-19 -- mathematical model -- hospital bed capacity -- intensive care; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; 616.905
• DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa937
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1058-4838

Abstract

Abstract: Countries such as South Africa have limited intensive care unit (ICU) capacity to handle the expected number of patients with COVID-19 requiring ICU care. Remdesivir can prevent deaths in countries such as South Africa by decreasing the number of days people spend in ICU, therefore freeing up ICU bed capacity.