UK hospitals to trial five new drugs in search for coronavirus treatment
Exclusive: thirty hospitals looking to sign up hundreds of patients to take part in studies
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Five new drugs are to be trialled in 30 hospitals across the country in the race to find a treatment for Covid-19, it has emerged.
Just days after World Health Organization trials of hydroxychloroquine, the drug promoted by Donald Trump as a cure, were halted, British scientists are looking to sign up hundreds of patients for trials of medicines they hope will prevent people becoming ill enough to need intensive care or ventilators.
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