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help can be A cheap and widely available drug called dexamethasone, save the lives of patients who are critically ill with the coronavirus.

UK experts say that the low-dose steroid treatment is a breakthrough in The Fight against the deadly virus.

It reduces The Risk of death by a third party for the patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, cut deaths by a fifth.

The drug is part of if you also work for coronavirus.

the researchers estimate that if the drug was in the UK from the beginning of the Corona-Virus-pandemic-could live for up to 5,000 People were saved. Because it is cheap, it might struggle also be of great use in poor countries with a high number of Covid-19 patients.

About 19 out of 20 patients coronavirus get better without having to come to the hospital. Of those admitted to the hospital, most of the better, but some may need oxygen or mechanical ventilation. These are The High -to-help-risk patients, the dexamethasone seems to be.

The drug is already used to reduce inflammation in a number of other conditions, and it seems that it helps stop some of the damage that can happen when the immune system goes into overdrive, as it tries to combat coronavirus.

The Body is over-reaction called a cytokine storm, and it can be fatal.

In the study, conducted by a team from the University of Oxford, around 2,000 patients in the hospital dexamethasone and were compared with nearly 4,000, not the drug.

For patients on ventilators death cut risk by 40% to 28%. For patients in need of oxygen, it cut the death risk from 25% to 20%.

Chief investigator Prof Peter Horby, said: "This is the only drug So Far has been shown to reduce mortality and reduced it significantly. It is a great breakthrough. "

lead researcher Prof Martin Landray, says the results indicate that for all eight patients fans, the treat it, you might need to save A Life .

In patients treated on oxygen, you save A Life for every 20-25 or so with the drug.

"There is a clear, unique benefit. The Treatment is up to 10 days of dexamethasone, and it costs About £5 Per patient. So essentially, it costs £35 to save A Life . This is a drug that is available worldwide. "

Prof Landray said, if it is appropriate, patients in the hospital, should now be given to it without delay, but People should not go out and buy it to take home.

dexamethasone does not seem to help People with milder symptoms of coronavirus - People who do not need help with their breathing.

The Recovery study has been running since March, and include the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, now, that it increased deaths and heart problems.

Another medicine called remdesivir, an anti-viral treatment is indicated for the reduction of The Recovery time for People with the coronavirus, already.

The First drug, The proven deaths from covid-19 is not some new, expensive medicine, but an old, cheap-as-chips steroid.

This is something to celebrate, because it means that patients could benefit to the whole world, immediately. This is has been alerted, why are the topline results of this study, because the effects are so large in The World .

dexamethasone has been used since the early 1960s for The Treatment of a variety of conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis and asthma. Half of all Covid patients who do not cut a ventilator to survive, so that The Risk to a third would have a big impact.

The drug is administered intravenously in the intensive care unit and in tablet form for less severely ill patients. The only other drug benefit demonstrated Covid patients is remdesivir, an antiviral treatment used for Ebola.

The has been shown to reduce the duration of the coronavirus symptoms from 15 Days to 11, but The Evidence was not strong enough to show whether it reduces mortality. In contrast to dexamethasone, remdesivir a new drug with limited supplies and a price has not yet been announced.

Source of news: bbc.com