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Today's test results have revealed that the steroid molecule dexamethasone is able to save a third of those with Covid 19 whose most severe cases are.
According to Agence France-Presse, researchers led by a team from Oxford University tested the drug on more than two thousand sufferers of Covid 19 suffering from serious symptoms, indicating that it reduced the death rates among patients who were able to breathe only across devices by 35 percent, while reducing deaths among They get oxygen at a rate of five, according to the initial results.
The team said that daily doses of dexamethasone could prevent the death of one in eight patients using the respirator and save one in every 25 patients who needed oxygen alone.
Peter Hurby, Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Oxford's Department of Medicine, explained that dexamethasone was the first drug to show improved survival in Covid 19 patients, indicating that it was inexpensive, sold without a prescription and could be used immediately to save lives around the world.