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Major coronavirus breakthrough as scientists discover £5 drug that stops people dying

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British scientists have discovered only the second type of drug to stop people dying from coronavirus. Steroids costing just £5 per person were found to save the life of one in every ten patients treated and will now become standard of care treatment globally.

They were given to patients requiring oxygen and could be taken as a tablet or injected into the blood stream for the sickest patients.

Seven trials co-ordinated by the World Health Organisation followed patients on types of steroids called corticosteroids at 88 NHS hospitals.

One type of corticosteroids, called hydrocortisone, cut the risk of death in critically ill coronavirus patients by 20%. NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said: “The NHS will now take immediate

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