Daily doses of the steroid could prevent one in eight ventilated patient deaths and save one out of every 25 patients requiring oxygen alone.
The UK government has made a major breakthrough in the fight against Covid-19. Dexamethasone has proven to be the first lifesaving drug. Researchers say it has cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. However, at the same time the UK government is coming under fire for the restructuring of its international aid ministry.
Normally used to treat a range of allergic reactions as well as rheumatoid arthritis and asthma, dexamethasone is an anti-inflammatory. Hancock said the government had started stockpiling dexamethasone back in March after preliminary trials showed"early signs" of the drug's potential.The trial results are particularly promising as around 40 percent of COVID-19 patients who require a ventilator end up dying, often because of the body's uncontrolled inflammatory response to the virus.
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