UK Approves Rheumatoid Arthritis Drugs for COVID-19 Treatment

UK Approves Rheumatoid Arthritis Drugs for COVID-19 Treatment
Medical staff wearing full PPE treat a CCP virus patient on an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ward at Frimley Park Hospital in Frimley, England on May 22, 2020. Steve Parsons/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
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The UK on Thursday approved two drugs to be used in treating patients with COVID-19, a disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus.

The two new drugs, tocilizumab and sarilumab, typically used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, are monoclonal antibodies that target a protein called interleukin-6, which is thought to be important in the COVID-19 infection pathway.