Original sentence: The remaining patients in the Compassionate IND program were grandfathered in There are only seven surviving patients in the program today (two remain anonymous)
Edited sentence: AIDS patients who were part of the program died (prior to improvements in new AIDS life-sustaining drugs) and Randall also died.The remaining patients in the Compassionate IND program were grandfathered in because it could entail public and embarrassing court cases for the federal government if they were to deny the patients medicine after allowing it for many years.There are only seven surviving patients in the program today (two remain anonymous)