The U.S. is slammed for “hoarding” the only approved medication to treat the coronavirus. Too Bad.

Health experts have slammed the United States for hoarding almost all of the world’s supply of remdesivir, the only drug licensed so far to treat COVID-19, warning that type of selfish behaviour sets a dangerous precedent for attempts to share scarce treatments amid the pandemic. Patients hospitalised with COVID-19 who received it recovered more quickly than those who didn’t The US Government announced on Tuesday that President Donald Trump had struck “an amazing deal” to buy the drug made by Gilead Sciences, for Americans. The Department of Health and Human Services said Mr Trump had secured 500,000 treatments of the drug through September, representing 100 per cent of Gilead’s July production capacity and 90 per cent of its capacity in August and September.