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Coronavirus: Asthma and hay fever pills could 'make fighting off Covid-19 harder'

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Allergy medication used to deal with the symptoms of hayfever and asthma could make it harder for sufferers to battle coronavirus.

Dr Daniel Griffin, a virologist at Columbia University in New York, explained that the steroids in the medication used to treat to two conditions could lead to a slower response to counter-attacking against the virus.

In turn, this would mean it would have stronger advantage to develop. Speaking on the podcast This Week in Virology Dr Griffin explained that after a person inhales a droplet carrying Covid-19, the virus uses spikey proteins to latch onto a cell and it begins to replicate itself.

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