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.
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