Life-saving coronavirus drug 'major breakthrough.

Life-saving corona virus drug 'major breakthrough. A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with corona virus.

The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.




 The drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for corona virus.It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. 😷😷


For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth. Had the drug had been used to treat patients in the UK from the start of the pandemic, up to 5,000 lives could have been saved, researchers say.And it could be of huge benefit in poorer countries with high numbers of Covid-19 patients. According to