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    "Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug

    By Michelle Roberts
    Health editor, BBC News online"

    "A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.

    The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.

    The drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.

    It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.

    Had the drug had been used to treat patients in the UK from the start of the pandemic, up to 5,000 lives could have been saved, researchers say."

    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-…

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    • Same shit they use for climbers suffering high-altitude sickness.Gnash
    • This news release sounds a lot like what we were told about Hydroxychloroquine in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.utopian
    • it was a double blind, random trial with control patients. hydroxychloroquine was a hunch of a french doctor based on 35 people, that hype is all on trump.kingsteven
    • looking back, Trump must have been told at the time the French guy supported him + is a climate change denier. there's definitely more to that story.kingsteven
    • utopian, nah think it's legit.microkorg
    • It’s just a steroidGnash
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