The Role of Remdesivir in South Africa: Preventing COVID-19 Deaths Through Increasing Intensive Care Unit Capacity.
Brooke E NicholsLise JamiesonSabrina R C ZhangGabriella A RaoSheetal SilalJuliet R C PulliamIan SanneGesine Meyer-RathPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
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.