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'Breakthrough' drug that could transform coronavirus fight gets UK trial

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BBC Panorama has been allowed inside a UK coronavirus drugs trial for the first time. The SNG-001 drug, being developed by Synairgen, prepares the body for a viral attack by stimulating the immune response in the lungs of asthma and chronic lung disease patients.

It is hoped the treatment will help coronavirus patients and prevent the most severe cases from requiring intensive care and ventilators.

Panorama has spoken to those involved in a trial at University Hospital Southampton. Richard Marsden, the CEO of Synairgen, said: "Our drug is a special formulation of interferon beta that we deliver directly to the airways when the virus is there. "What we've shown in our research is that older people, and people with some chronic conditions,

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