To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made with trials of existing licensed drugs as potential treatments for covid-19.
Answered on
18 June 2020
The United Kingdom is trialling a number of drugs which are licensed for other reasons as potential treatments for COVID-19, including through the RECOVERY trial, which has recruited over 11,200 patients and is the world’s largest randomised controlled trial researching potential treatments for COVID-19. Results from the trials will be available in due course.
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