Sen. Johnson Roundtable Features Patient Complaints on COVID Hospital Care

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson held a roundtable where patients, relatives and doctors described harms they attributed to hospitals’ COVID-19 treatment practices, including alleged mistreatment of unvaccinated patients and disregard for requests to avoid remdesivir. Johnson said his office had received hundreds of accounts from across the country and framed the event as part of efforts to protect patients’ voice in medical care. The accounts were personal testimonies, not independently established findings; the FDA investigated concerns about remdesivir and kidney toxicity but found no clear causal link, later concluding it could be used in patients with severe renal impairment without dosage adjustment.