Is this the answer to Covid 19? 

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Is this the answer to Covid 19? London Scientists in the UK have discovered a cheap and available treatment for COVID-19 patients. They have described the use of a common steroid drug as a "major breakthrough". The drug, dexamethasone, reduced death rates by a third for patients on ventilators, and by a fifth for patients needing oxygen. The results have been published from the Recovery trial which is assessing a number of different possible COVID-19 treatments. It is thought the drug could have saved between 4,000 to 5,000 lives if it had been used earlier in the pandemic. It costs in the order of £5 (around Rs450) for a complete course of treatment in the NHS, and substantially less - probably less than one dollar - in other parts of the world, for example in India. There are currently no approved treatments or vaccines for COVID-19. Other companies are working on vaccines but none have succeeded so far.

Scientists in the UK have discovered a cheap and available treatment for COVID-19 patients. They have described the use of a common steroid drug as a “major breakthrough”.

The drug, dexamethasone, reduced death rates by a third for patients on ventilators, and by a fifth for patients needing oxygen.

The results have been published from the Recovery trial which is assessing a number of different possible COVID-19 treatments.

It is thought the drug could have saved between 4,000 to 5,000 lives if it had been used earlier in the pandemic.

It costs in the order of £5 (around Rs450) for a complete course of treatment in the NHS, and substantially less – probably less than one dollar – in other parts of the world, for example in India.

There are currently no approved treatments or vaccines for COVID-19. Other companies are working on vaccines but none have succeeded so far.

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