A cheap steroid might be the first covid-19 drug to save lives

A cheap steroid might be the first covid-19 drug to save lives

The news: A cheap steroid called dexamethasone significantly cuts the chances that seriously ill covid-19 patients will die, according to the world’s biggest trial of existing treatments. Specifically, it reduced the risk of death for patients on ventilators by a third. For those receiving oxygen, it cut the risk of death by a fifth. The drug […]

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