Breaking: Oxford Researchers Identify First Drug Proven to Reduce COVID Fatalities

Researchers at the University of Oxford announced Tuesday that they had found the first proven life-saving coronavirus treatment, after a clinical trial of dexamethasone, a low-cost steroid treatment, cut the risk of death by one-third for coronavirus patients on ventilators and one-fifth for those on oxygen.

The study, part of the U.K.'s "Recovery Trial" project to find existing treatments for COVID-19, compared approximately 2,000 hospital patients that were given dexamethasone with nearly 4,000 who did not get the drug.

For patients on ventilators it cut death risk from 40 percent to 28 percent, while patients who required oxygen saw their death risk fall from 25 percent to 20 percent..

Breaking: Oxford researchers find 1st drug proven to reduce Covid deaths

Low-cost steroid dexamethasone reduced death by a third in ventilated patients

If used from start of the pandemic it could have saved apprx 5,000 lives in UK

It costs about £5 — about £40 saves a life pic.twitter.com/AuhXcYbjyM

— Rhys Blakely (@rhysblakely) June 16, 2020

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