30p gout pill could slash the risk of Covid patients needing hospital by 25%

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Dr Jean-Claude Tardif, who led the Canadian arm of the study in Montreal, said this is a "major scientific discovery”. "Colchicine is old as it is - we've been treating gout with it for hundreds of years - so it's available in pharmacies," he said.Experts were cautiously optimistic about study's findings but said more details were needed.

It's kind of like doping before a competition. There's lot of pharma available, but which one(s) take gold?

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