Coronavirus: Dexamethasone can help save lives of very ill patients, British trial into low-cost drug finds

A low-cost and widely available drug has been found to reduce the death rate by one-third among most severe Covid-19 patients, according to trial data published on Tuesday.Dexamethasone, a generic anti-inflammatory medication, was hailed as the first life-saving drug by the University of Oxford scientists leading the coronavirus treatment testing project named “RECOVERY”.Scientists around the world are racing against the clock to find a treatment for Covid-19, the illness caused by the new…

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