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and let s dance. a new album of previously unreleased david bowie tunes is due to be made public. we talk to the records producer. welcome to the programme. they could be a breakthrough in the way we treat covid i9. interim trials suggest a new experimental drug for severe covid cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by about half. if authorised by regulators, the new drug, which comes in the form of a pill, would be the first oral antiviral medication for covid i9. this is the first covid pill. trial results suggest it can cut hospitalisations or deaths by half. the news of the efficacy
but this is an exciting development, as the first company to report trial results of a pill to treat covid as other companies also work on similar treatments. mark lobel, bbc news. earlier i spoke to epidemiologist and health economist dr eric feigl ding, and asked him how much of a game changer this new drug is in the fight against covid. this pill is quite remarkable. it is not based on any spike proteins like the vaccines are, it is agnostic to variants, because it targets the molecular machinery of the virus. it adds lots of nonsense code. it completely corrupts the genome of the virus, so that it can t replicate. and that s the beauty. then even if the virus mutates, it can still be useful. people are talking about this, if we have another coronavirus pandemic in the future this drug will still work for that coronavirus, because it agnostic to variants. and that, i think,
of this particular antiviral is obviously very good news. the company, when they briefed us last night, had mentioned that they will be submitting their data to the fda imminently. the data are impressive. pills were given to 775 elderly or medically at risk patients within five days of them showing coronavirus symptoms. the data from a phase three trial showed 7.3% of patients on the drug were hospitalised, compared to 14.1% of those who did not take the tablets. eight patients who were given a placebo or dummy pill later died of covid, but there were no deaths in the group taking the pill. the trial was stopped early because the pill was so successful. the data still needs to be peer reviewed. so how does it work? as coronavirus replicates itself inside your body,
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