British researchers say steroid treatment reduces coronavirus death rate by a third
British researchers say a steroid called dexamethasone reduces deaths among the most severe Covid-19 patients by a third. The discovery comes after the medical establishment shunned hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment.
Dexamethasone is an inexpensive and generic steroid whose price and popularity has tanked in recent years. However, the drug may soon be used to treat the most severely ill coronavirus patients, if a new study from the University of Oxford is anything to go by.