{"id":1656,"date":"2021-06-16T17:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T17:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news25.org\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2021-06-16T17:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T17:50:21","slug":"another-life-saving-covid-treatment-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.news25.org\/another-life-saving-covid-treatment-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Another life-saving Covid treatment found"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Exactly a year on from the discovery that a\u00a0cheap steroid drug prevented Covid deaths, researchers say they have found another life-saving therapy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is expensive – a potent intravenous infusion of antibodies to neutralise the virus, rather than dampen the body’s inflammatory response to it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Results from the\u00a0Recovery trial\u00a0suggest it could help one in three of those in hospital with severe Covid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For every 100 patients treated, experts calculate, it would save six lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ground-breaking treatment<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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But only those who have not already made any antibodies of their own to fight the virus should be given the treatment, which costs between \u00a31,000 and \u00a32,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kimberley Featherstone, 37, who received the treatment during the trial, said: “I feel very lucky that the trial was up and running by the time I was taken to hospital with Covid-19 and I was able to receive this ground-breaking treatment.<\/p>\n