Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles 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. U. 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.
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