Common Steroid Found To Reduce Deaths In Sickest COVID-19 Patients, Researchers Say
Researchers at the University of Oxford in the U.K. compared outcomes of 2,104 hospitalized patients who received the steroid, called dexamethasone, with 4,321 patients who did not.
According to the researchers, deaths were reduced by about a third in those patients who were sick enough to require mechanical ventilation, and by about 20 percent among patients who had trouble breathing, but had not been put on a ventilator. Dexamethasone did not appear to help patients who did not require oxygen.
The results of the clinical trial, called Recovery, have not yet been published in a medical journal and the data have not been made available for outside experts to review. Researchers said they stopped the trial early because of the observed benefits.
Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, expressed frustration on Twitter that “it is now a feature of this pandemic that most findings made public via press release with little data to provide context.” But, he added, “this is REALLY good news if it turns out to be true.”
Outside experts called the results important and promising but added the full data should be released for a complete analysis of how it worked in this clinical trial.
“The low cost and broad availability of this drug mean that there is potential for considerable clinical impact by including it as part of standard treatment,” Dr. Stephen Griffin, an associate professor of medicine at the U.K.’s University of Leeds, said in a statement. Griffin was not involved with the trial.
“Nevertheless, it will be important to assess how this important success might be further improved in order to increase patient survival, perhaps through the combination of low-dose dexamethasone with other inflammatory mediators, or with virus-targeted therapies, such as remdesivir,” Griffin said.
Remdesivir is the only other therapy that’s been shown in a clinical trial to help coronavirus patients. Results of that trial found that hospitalized patients who received the drug recovered more quickly and were able to be released from the hospital faster. It did not affect mortality, though.
Leave it to the UK’s health professionals to solve this.
Trump has been negligent and absent of any kind of leadership.
And HIS administration? Clowns in the clown car.
We are all paying the price for the election of a Fool to the White House.
In his 4th year now, the RECORD is clear:
Trump has the worst economic record of any President in US history.
Democrat Governors in MI, NY, NJ, CA and PA Sent Letter Demanding Why They Ignored Protocols and Sent Sick COVID-19 Patients to Nursing Homes
…Only 1.8% of the US population lives in nursing homes but over 40% of the coronavirus deaths were in these centers.
This is ONE OF the biggest scandals of the year and the Liberal Media WILL NOT report on this.
On Monday Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) called on Democrat governors in New York, New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania and Michigan demanding they explain why they ignored protocols and forced COVID-19 patients into nursing homes…
This should be the biggest coronavirus story. It’s not, because Democrat governors ordered these deaths. https://t.co/9djLTmrX2o….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/democrat-governors-mi-ny-nj-ca-pa-sent-letter-demanding-ignored-protocols-sent-sick-covid-19-patients-nursing-homes/
Joe mentions WHITE NATIONALIST Steve Scalise in this article.
He got his ass beat in the last election. Many of the WHITE NATIONALISTS in his district voted for him. But those people are dying off and are major losers.
Very interesting article. I would like to look at the deaths do to the order of ignored protocols.
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