Oxford University researchers say that a very cheap steroid drug called "dexamethasone" that has long been safely used to treat arthritis can save the lives of about a third of severely ill COVID-19 patients, such as those who are sick enough to be put on a respirator, it doesn't seem to help much for patients who are only slightly sick. Britain’s health ministry Immediately approved dexamethasone for this purpose, imposed export restrictions on it, and has already stockpiled 200,000 doses.
This comes from the journal Nature, so it has my full attention: Coronavirus breakthrough: dexamethasone is first drug shown to save lives <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01824-5?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=7fb7c54efa-briefing-dy-20200616&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-7fb7c54efa-44221073> John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3gsmZt2wCRJkx0O%2BZRq7fNM8sEHPYJz-jp7f1R%2Bnh3Hw%40mail.gmail.com.
