Skip to main content

U.S. may get more ventilators but run out of medicine for COVID-19 patients

By NPR  
   April 04, 2020

As hospitals around the country fill with COVID-19 patients, medical personnel are sounding the alarm about shortages of drugs essential to those patients' care. "We have seen an increase in demand on pharmaceuticals that's unprecedented," says Daniel Kistner, who manages the pharmacy program for Vizient, a group purchasing organization that negotiates lower prices with drug manufacturers. "Never seen anything like this before across the whole country."

Full story


Get the latest on healthcare leadership in your inbox.