evidence: For starters, remdesivir is a drug infusion that must be given intravenously, in a clinical setting. Compared with other outpatient options, the drug takes more space and staff to infuse, says Dr. Cameron Wolfe, an infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at Duke University. [...] For these reasons, health care providers consider remdesivir to be low on the list of treatment options — available if necessary, but hard to implement. Fox says her health system in Utah has treated only about 15 early COVID-19 patients with remdesivir so far. A larger-than-expected shipment of monoclonal antibody treatments received last month, provided free by the U.S. government, puts remdesivir on the back burner for now. "We have it, we want to use it, but we're kind of turning it on and off depending on how much sotrovimab we're getting," Fox says.