Remdesivir ready for COVID-19 patients at Albany hospital

ALBANY – Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, the Albany-based hospital that has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, will start using the antiviral drug remdesivir to help treat patients with severe health issues from the respiratory virus.

The South Georgia hospital is one of eight in the state to receive initial shipments of the drug that arrived from federal officials last week. The hospitals picked to receive the drug are among the most affected by COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel strain of coronavirus that sparked a global pandemic.