8 Oct 2020

Covid-19: Biochemistry professor on Donald Trump's medications

From Morning Report, 8:45 am on 8 October 2020

US president Donald Trump is back at the White House after his brief hospital stay, but continues to be treated for Covid-19.

Among his medicines, he is being given the intravenous antiviral drug, remdesivir, and a powerful steroid, dexmethasone.

Trump says he is is well on the road to recovery, but doctors say a relapse is still possible.

Kurt Krause is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Otago, Dunedin.