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Critical Ridgewood Patient, 25, Flown To UPenn For Coronavirus Medicine Critical Ridgewood Patient, 25, Flown To UPenn For Coronavirus Medicine
Critical Ridgewood Patient, 25, Flown To UPenn For Coronavirus Medicine UPDATE: A 25-year-old New Jersey coronavirus victim whose mother's quest to get him an experimental drug went viral was airlifted to an intensive care unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, she told Daily Voice on Wednesday. Genny Allard of Ridgewood is hoping doctors will treat her son, Jack Allard of Metuchen, with remdesivir, a drug currently in worldwide clinical trials amid claims by patients that it can alleviate severe COVID-19 symptoms. Unfortunately, "Gilead Sciences has halted emergency individual ‘compassionate use’ access" to the drug, "citing overwhelming dema…

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