Another weapon....

..... But of a good kind!

This morning's BBC news online and at its website is of a new and quite powerful drug to help with the breathing difficulties encountered in severe cases of covid-19.

The new drug, as yet unnamed, and being researched in my home city of Southampton has found in early trials that it helps in 79% of cases. That's a big number! And though it won't win the covid-19 war, it's a significant weapon which will help in the fight.

It has to be given via a nebuliser, directly into the lungs and uses a protein called interferon beta which provokes an immune response in the body to the virus.

So, it's good to know that every day we are coming closer to tame this virus, even if we can't ever eliminate it. And shows that, eventually, just like influenza, we will find ways of living with it, much more safely!