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abqtommy

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Wed Apr 22, 2020, 09:03 AM Apr 2020

Coronavirus cure: When will we have a drug to treat it? From BBC:Health 4-22-20

"More than 150,000 people have died with Covid-19, but there are still no drugs proven to help doctors treat the disease.

So how far are we from these life-saving medicines?
What work is being done to find treatments?

More than 150 different drugs are being researched around the world. Most are existing drugs that are being trialled against the virus.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the Solidarity trial aimed at assessing the most promising treatments
The UK says its Recovery trial is the the world's biggest, with more than 5,000 patients already taking part
And multiple research centres around the world are attempting to use survivors' blood as a treatment

What types of drugs might work?"

more at link: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52354520

There's a lot of work being done and much more yet to be done...

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