Health
Arthritis drug tocilizumab cuts deaths from Covid – BBC News
Giving it along with a steroid drug can help the sickest patients with Covid-19, research reveals.
By Michelle RobertsHealth editor, BBC News online
A drug normally used to treat arthritis can be a life-saver for some of the sickest hospital patients with Covid, new research shows.
For every 25 patients treated with tocilizumab, along with a cheap steroid already routinely given, an additional life would be saved, the experts say.
Some hospitals are now doing this.
As well as improving survival and recovery time, it can avoid patients needing to be moved to intensive care, say the NHS doctors.
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