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  • a drug that is normally given to people with arthritis could help covert patients.

  • A major trial shows that when Tosel is a mob is combined with the steroid Dexter methods own, it can cut by upto half the number of people.

  • Number of covert patients dying in hospital A czar, Medical editor Fergus Walsh, reports the trials were carried out here in the UK, searching among existing medicines for any that Country Cove.

  • It has been a huge task.

  • First there was decks, a methadone.

  • Now this tosel is a mob.

  • Together, they could dramatically improve survival for patients on oxygen.

  • Compared with a year ago, when we really did not know how Thio treat this disease, we now have two treatments.

  • They both act on the immune system.

  • Dexter methods own Tosel is a mob.

  • Put them together on we reduce the risk of death by ah, third or even a much as a half in the sickest patients.

  • That's great news.

  • Dexter methods own a steroid cost just £5 whereas the arthritis drug Tosel is a mob at least £500 per patient.

  • But that's still far less than the £2000 a day cost of being in I C.

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  • This therapy looks like it keeps people out of the intensive care unit, so they never need to meet people like me, which can only be a good thing.

  • So as well as improving survival, it actually will decrease the number of people he need to come to intensive care, which is fabulous.

  • There's understandably a huge focus on preventing coronavirus on vaccines, but for those with co vid, it is treatments like Dexia.

  • Method Zone on Tosel is a mob which will save lives.

  • Now I need the research.

  • So I was just signed up for Lawrence, spent several days in intensive care at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, but now has his bags packed, ready to go home.

  • He's one of tens of thousands of co vid patients taking part in NHS trials.

  • If nobody is willing to try and you're back to square one again on you, nobody's gonna do anything.

  • They do anything.

  • Last month, NHS hospitals treated more than 100,000 co vid patients.

  • That's around one in three of all those admitted since the pandemic began, CO vid remains a brutal disease, but the chances of surviving it are improving.

a drug that is normally given to people with arthritis could help covert patients.

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