Researchers in England say drug can reduce death rates in very ill COVID-19 patients. But it's risky for those with mild symptoms.
— has proved effective in a rigorous clinical trial, but its benefit was limited to shortened recovery time.
The steroid “is the first drug to be shown to improve survival in COVID-19,” said Oxford University’san infectious-diseases expert and one of the clinical trial’s chief investigators. “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.”
, director of Emory University’s critical care center. For patients with such a high risk of dying, a one-third reduction in mortality is “remarkable,” he said. At the same time, physicians responded cautiously to the glowing study findings that were summarized in a news release rather than published in detail in a medical journal, as is customary.
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