Selected NHS coronavirus patients will soon be able to access an experimental treatment to speed up their recovery, with the health secretary Matt Hancock calling it ”the biggest step forward’’ in treatment since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis.
The anti-viral drug remdesivir will be made available to patients meeting certain clinical criteria to support their recovery in hospital.
The drug is currently undergoing clinical trials around the world, including in the UK, and peer-reviewed data show it can shorten the time to recovery by about four days.
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