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COVID-19: Steroids Reduce Mortality In Severely Ill Patients, Researchers Say COVID-19: Steroids Reduce Mortality In Severely Ill Patients, Researchers Say
Covid-19: Steroids Reduce Mortality In Severely Ill Patients, Researchers Say Steroids can be used to combat COVID-19, according to new guidelines issued by the World Health Organization. Countries should stock up on steroids now, the WHO advised on Wednesday, Sept. 2. The steroid dexamethasone reduced COVID-related deaths by one-third of hospitalized patients who required ventilators and one-fifth of patients who were put on oxygen, according to a recent study by UK-based RECOVERY. For more than a decade, the drug has been used in the treatment of asthma.  Given that COVID-19 patients with severe cases often suffer from acute lung inflammation, like sufferers…

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by Christina Coulter
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COVID-19: Low-Cost Steroid Dramatically Reduces Fatalities, 6,000-Patient Trial Shows COVID-19: Low-Cost Steroid Dramatically Reduces Fatalities, 6,000-Patient Trial Shows
Covid-19: Low-Cost Steroid Dramatically Reduces Fatalities, 6,000-Patient Trial Shows Scientists may be on the verge of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) breakthrough after discovering a low-cost drug they say is the first to reduce virus-related fatalities for patients on oxygen. After successfully carrying out a 6,000-patient trial, scientists found Dexamethasone -- a well-known, inexpensive steroid -- dramatically helped those with severe cases of the virus, the scientists at the University of Oxford in England announced. One-third of the patients in the trial that were receiving ventilation had a reduced death rate, as did the one-fifth of patients on oxygen when …

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by Valerie Musson