LONDON, March 23 — Scientists at Britain’s Oxford University have started a clinical trial to investigate the effects of an HIV medicine and a steroid drug in UK patients admitted to hospital with Covid-19 caused by the new coronavirus. The first patients have already been enrolled for the...
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The first patients have already been enrolled for the trial within the country’s National Health Service, the researchers said today. In a small-scale trial of just the HIV drug in patients in China with severe Covid-19, scientists found it “had no discernible effect” on the replication of the virus.
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