This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Remdesivir to be used to treat all critical COVID-19 patients.
Instead of allowing critically ill patients to die of COVID-19 the NHS to consider prescribing Remdesivir without awaiting trial results
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To potentially save thousands of lives, even amongst the very critically ill.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
Patient care is a matter for the NHS and medical professionals, and not the Government or House of Commons.
However, since you started your petition the Government has announced that selected NHS patients will be able to access coronavirus treatment remdesivir: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/selected-nhs-patients-to-access-coronavirus-treatment-remdesivir
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.