Even with vaccines, we still need treatments for Covid. So what works?
Analysis: death rates in intensive care are falling as doctors identify more ways to help those with the disease
Vaccines may have been described as the great escape route from the Covid pandemic - but treatments, which are bringing down death rates, will be needed as much as ever in the era of jabs because the virus is not expected to go away in the foreseeable future, experts say.
It's going to take a long time to vaccinate the world," said Peter Horby of Oxford University, chief investigator of the Recovery trial into Covid treatments and chair of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag). I don't know what the estimates are, but we've already seen issues with manufacturing scale-up and difficulties in delivering at scale.
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