There are questions about just how much it is costing Wisconsin to treat one person at the state’s 15 million-dollar overflow hospital at the state fairgrounds.
The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said there is still just the one patient. The hospital was built to hold 500 patients, Governor Evers last week ordered it open for up to 50. Brett Healy with the MacIver Institute said Wisconsin’s regular hospitals were supposed to get nearly a half-billion dollars to treat coronavirus patients. He wants to know where that money is, and whether it’s efficient to spend so much on the little used overflow hospital.
In other updates. on the national level The Food and Drug Administration is approving remdesivir as a treatment for the coronavirus the drug was first created to treat ebola patients and has received official authorization to treat COVID-19. The FDA had previously granted emergency approval.
