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GMB's Dr Hilary explains how arthritis drugs can help keep Covid patients alive

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Good Morning Britain 's Dr Hilary Jones says it's "good news" that two arthritis drugs, tocilizumab and sarilumab, can cut the death rate of Covid by 24%.

But, he said, the death rate is still 28% and warned "now is not the the time to get complacent". He explained: "These two medications are already being used for patients with rheumatoid arthritis where you have got unwanted inflammation.

They have been used to help people who are seriously ill from Covid, in intensive care, who are already on oxygen and steroid therapy. "If you treat 12 of them with these medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab, you save one life. "Compare that to statins, which millions of people are on, you’ve got to treat 100 people to save two lives. "So this is a

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