Vulnerable NHS Covid patients to be offered new drug
A new Covid drug designed to reduce the risk of vulnerable patients needing hospital treatment will be available on the NHS from today.
"If you test positive and are at high risk then we will be contacting you, and, if eligible, you will be able to get access to these new treatments."To date most Covid treatments have focused on patients already in hospital with the disease - such as the cheap steroid dexamethasone and the arthritis drug Tocilizumab.
The drug works by binding to the spike protein on the outside of the virus, preventing it from entering human cells, so that it cannot replicate in the body. The drug is most effective if taken in the first five days after infection and is likely to be given in clinics or to outpatients in hospital. "Therapies that can keep people out of hospital are going to be important weapons as we look at this next period of coping with the virus."
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