Gilead Sciences Inc said on Sunday it was temporarily putting new emergency acce...
FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past a Gilead Sciences, Inc. office in Foster City, California, U.S. May 1, 2018. REUTERS/Stephen Lam
The drugmaker said in a statement there had been an exponential increase in so-called compassionate-use requests for the drug. The spread of the virus in Europe and the United States has “flooded an emergency treatment access system that was set up for very limited access to investigational medicines and never intended for use in response to a pandemic,” it said.
Gilead said it would make exceptions for pregnant women and children under 18 with severe COVID-19, the highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.
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