What treatments are working in the fight against COVID-19? Is there a cure? | ABC News

Is there a cure for COVID-19?

Patients with severe illness are treated with a cocktail of drugs, but there’s still no silver bullet for COVID-19. Some “miracle” drugs have since been proven to be ineffective, and even dangerous.

As researchers like to say, a lot of things will kill coronavirus in a petri dish, including kerosene – but we need to prove treatments can work in the human body.

Jeremy Fernandez explains.

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