There is one drug that has received a go-ahead as a possible treatment for COVID-19. Remdesivir has been seen in early studies to help patients recover from coronavirus.

IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike says Illinois received a shipment of the drug from the federal government and those cases of Remdesivir have been distributed to 14 hospitals around the state. Ezike says IDPH worked to send the drug to hospitals that needed it the most.

127 cases went to Cook County hospitals and 13 cases to hospitals in other parts of Illinois. Each case has enough medicine to treat five patients.