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  • United States has struck a deal to buy almost the entire world supply off a drug that's known to help people recover from Cove in 19 in trials carried out in the U.

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  • As well as elsewhere, Ramdev severe was cutting the time needed in the hospital for the most seriously L by about four days.

  • It's one of only two drugs known to be effective in treating the virus is our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh explains Geraldine, from north London, is one of more than 1000 Cove it patients who took part in a global trial of rendez Severe.

  • This is her receiving the drug.

  • In April, she made a rapid recovery and his shop that the drug has been bought up by the U.

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  • I wanted to be part of something that could potentially help everyone, and I feel that no, only a small percentage of the world's population really are going to receive any benefit from it.

  • And in the near future, it's really disappointing.

  • Desert takes months to manufacture, so there was already a shortage.

  • This deal means the American farmer company Gilead will reserve nearly a lot production in the coming three months for U S Patients Cove.

  • It is a global problem with millions of patients affected world right, Those patients need access to proven treatments.

  • For one country to dominate, the access to a single treatment is beyond unfortunate.

  • There are now two drugs which have proven to be effective against Cove in 19 rendez severe on the steroid Dexter methods.

  • Own rendez of it costs £1900 per course of treatment, whereas decks, a method zone, costs just £5.

  • Rendez severe cuts the duration of symptoms from 15 to 11 days, but is not proven to reduce the risk of dying, whereas decks, a method zone cuts the risk of dying by 1/3 in the most seriously ill patients.

  • Theo NHS says it has enough rendez a beer for patients who currently needed.

  • But how long that will last is unclear, but there are ample supplies of decks, a methadone, which is now the standard treatment for seriously ill covert patients.

United States has struck a deal to buy almost the entire world supply off a drug that's known to help people recover from Cove in 19 in trials carried out in the U.

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