Potentially life-saving coronavirus treatment dexamethasone could have 'immediate impact,' former FDA chief says

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Potentially life-saving coronavirus treatment could have 'immediate impact,' former FDA chief says

In one study, the drug cut the risk of death by a third for Covid-19 patients on ventilators and by a fifth for those on supplemental oxygen. The underlying data from the study has yet to be published, but the U.K. researchers who led the trial described the results as a "ground-breaking."

The drug is the first to show signs that it can improve survival among Covid-19 patients, the researchers said., killing at least 437,532 people, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. "Dexamethasone is the first drug to be shown to improve survival in COVID-19," Peter Horby, an Oxford University professor and one of the chief investigators for the trial, said in a statement. "The survival benefit is clear and large in those patients who are sick enough to require oxygen treatment, so dexamethasone should now become standard of care in these patients.

 

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Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR released advisory to expand usage of HCQ — preventive treatment against Covid-19 HCQWorks

Lol potentially and could

As working mechanism is probably the reduction of inflammation, it can be used in all covid19 patients with severe symptoms. And dirt cheap as well!

Yesterday this fuck was peddling the usual doom and gloom.

Don’t tell Fauci

Yes, but it only helps people already in need of a vent.

so the steroids were bad, and now they are good right? make people believe things are good.. sure!

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