UK in drive to develop drugs to take at home to ‘stop Covid in its tracks’
by Sarah Boseley and Jessica Elgot from Science | The Guardian on (#5GTXE)
Taskforce aims to supercharge' search for antivirals to roll out as soon as autumn, says government
People with mild Covid-19 could take a pill or capsule at home to prevent the illness turning serious and requiring hospital treatment, under government plans to fast-track development of treatments for the disease.
The government is launching an antivirals taskforce to find at least two drugs by the autumn that people can take to stop coronavirus in its tracks and speed up recovery from it.
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