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Coronavirus: Trial shows experimental drug prevents 79% of COVID-19 cases from progressing

Sky, 21 Jul 2020
Researchers trialling an experimental drug on critically ill coronavirus patients say it prevented their disease from progressing in 79% of cases.

The experimental drug known as SNG001 is an inhaled formulation of beta-interferon developed by the pharmaceutical company Synairgen and was given to patients in hospital with COVID-19 who needed oxygen assistance.

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