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Senators demand answers about federal prisons’ scant use of Covid therapeutics
WASHINGTON — Fourteen senators are demanding that the federal Bureau of Prisons explain its scant use of Covid-19 therapeutics.
The letter is based on STAT’s May reporting showing that the agency used just a fraction of the Covid-19 drugs it was allotted by the federal government. It urges the bureau’s leadership to revamp its approach toward Covid-19 testing in an effort to catch more infections that could benefit from these drugs, which need to be given early in a person’s illness.
