Treating the Coronavirus | Reducing the Odds of Developing Severe Disease

A promising treatment for #COVID19, now being prepared for major trials in the UK, the US and India, grows out of #research supported by the Medical Research Council over more than five decades, and dating back to the discovery of coronaviruses.

The work of MRC-supported researchers provided global leadership and world-leading research in clinical trial implementation, health data management, #vaccine development and genomic surveillance through sequencing from early 2020.

RECOVERY, the first and largest clinical trial for identifying treatments for COVID-19, currently has over 40,000 participants and 180 active sites across the world. It has investigated 10 potential treatments, and in its first year definitely ruled out four of these. The trial has saved an estimated 22,000 lives in the UK and one million lives worldwide through the early identification of dexamethasone, the first effective treatment for patients hospitalised with severe COVID-19.

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