UK hospitals to trial five new drugs in search for coronavirus treatment
by Lisa O'Carroll from on (#545AK)
Exclusive: thirty hospitals looking to sign up hundreds of patients to take part in studies
Five new drugs are to be trialled in 30 hospitals across the country in the race to find a treatment for Covid-19, it has emerged.
Just days after global trials of hydroxychloroquine, the drug promoted by Donald Trump as a cure, were halted, British scientists are looking to sign up hundreds of patients for trials of medicines they hope will prevent people becoming ill enough to need intensive care or ventilators.
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