Oregon hospitals to receive experimental Covid treatment

The Oregon Health Authority will distribute an experimental Covid-19 treatment to state hospitals. The drug remdesivir has been used to treat patients with severe Covid-19 symptoms, and preliminary testing has shown that patients using it have faster recoveries. The drug has not been formally approved by the Food and Drug Administration but is being used through a federal emergency use authorization. The OHA received its first shipments of remdesivir, produced by Gilead, last week and will begin…