Before Rodney Briones’s physicians at Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center in California treated him with remdesivir, they didn’t disclose the risks to him or to his wife, Christina, and didn’t obtain informed consent, according to a complaint filed by the Briones family.
The couple had gone to the managed care consortium for help in 2021 after Briones developed COVID-19 symptoms and tested positive twice for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease.
