Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Clin Infect Dis. 2021 May 4;72(9):1642-1644. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa937.
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.
南非等国的重症监护病房(ICU)能力有限,无法应对预计需要 ICU 护理的 COVID-19 患者数量。瑞德西韦可以通过减少人们在 ICU 中度过的天数,从而腾出 ICU 床位,来预防南非等国的死亡。