Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the state is again providing some Texas hospitals with cases of remdesivir, the antiviral drug used to treat COVID-19 patients. The supply comes from Gilead Sciences, which has donated cases of the drug to the U.S. federal government for local distribution. Gov. Abbott says military and veterans’ administration hospitals will receive cases of the drug through a separate program, and that hospitals without ICU beds will not received any shipments of the drug. The FDA granted Gilead Sciences an EUA for remdesivir in May. Read more.