A “woefully inadequate” national supply of the drug remdesivir to treat novel coronavirus infected patients during the summer surge of cases in San Antonio left hospitals and doctors having to ration its use, an expert in infectious diseases said Tuesday.Remdesivir has been found to shorten the time it takes a COVID-19 patient to recover from 15 to 11 days and halt the progression of the disease, keeping more patients out of the intensive care unit and off of ventilators to breathe, said Dr. Tom Patterson, chief of infectious diseases in the Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio...…A “woefully inadequate” national supply of the drug remdesivir to treat novel coronavirus infected patients during the summer surge of cases in San Antonio left hospitals and doctors having to ration its use, an expert in infectious diseases said Tuesday.Remdesivir has been found to shorten the time it takes a COVID-19 patient to recover from 15 to 11 days and halt the progression of the disease, keeping more patients out of the intensive care unit and off of ventilators to breathe, said Dr. Tom Patterson, chief of infectious diseases in the Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio...WW…