WHO welcomes the initial clinical trial results from the #UnitedKingdom that show #dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, can be lifesaving for patients who are critically ill with #COVID19 👉 bit.ly/30Jswgq
For #COVID19 patients on ventilators, the #dexamethasone treatment was shown to reduce mortality by about one third, and for patients requiring only oxygen, mortality was cut by about one fifth, according to preliminary findings shared with WHO.
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The benefit of #dexamethasone was only seen in patients seriously ill with #COVID19, and was not observed in patients with milder disease.
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#Dexamethasone is a steroid that has been used since the 1960s to reduce inflammation in a range of conditions, including inflammatory disorders and certain #cancers. It has been listed on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines since 1977 in multiple formulations.
The researchers shared initial insights about the #dexamethasone results of the trial with WHO, and we are looking forward to the full data analysis in the coming days.
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