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Dexamethasone: Life-saving coronavirus drug found by Oxford scientists after ‘fantastic’ trial
The Independent (via Yahoo! News) ^
| June 16, 2020
| Jon Sharman
Posted on 06/16/2020 8:24:37 AM PDT by Rio
A cheap steroid called dexamethasone has been found to reduce the risk of death by up to one-third among coronavirus patients with severe respiratory complications, University of Oxford researchers have said.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: chinavirusdrug; covid; dexamethasone; steroid; theindependent; zot
Another candidate treatment...
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posted on
06/16/2020 8:24:37 AM PDT
by
Rio
To: Rio
Let the doctor hoarding of dexamethasone beging..... NOW!
...and their off...
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posted on
06/16/2020 8:29:56 AM PDT
by
z3n
To: Rio
Dex is widely used in US hospitals as a powerful anti inflammatory drug. Why are we hearing about it from *UK* researchers ? Oh wait, something about it being cheap..
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posted on
06/16/2020 8:31:26 AM PDT
by
libh8er
To: Rio
Cue the CDC to order clinical trials and wait 4 months for the results.
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posted on
06/16/2020 8:33:20 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: Rio
Almost ALL patients with respiratory troubles will receive corticosteroids - prednisone is routinely used over dexamethasone so its unclear why they single out dex.
This is all so dopey - a blinding flash of the obvious.
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posted on
06/16/2020 8:39:34 AM PDT
by
corkoman
To: Rio
Great. We have to be hooked on ‘meth to beat the ‘rona.
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posted on
06/16/2020 8:41:14 AM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Rio
I have a bottle of it in my barn right now. We use it for our horses.
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posted on
06/16/2020 8:48:29 AM PDT
by
lopinslow
To: BradyLS
We have to be hooked on ‘meth to beat the ‘rona.
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posted on
06/16/2020 8:56:13 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.z)
To: corkoman
Dexamethasone is almost 7 times more potent weight for weight than prednisone. Compared to dex, prednisone is like eating skittles.
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posted on
06/16/2020 9:09:49 AM PDT
by
diatomite
(Libs, the MSM, journos, actors - all are on the low-end of the Dunning-Kreuger effect)
To: libh8er
Dex is widely used in US hospitals as a powerful anti inflammatory drug. Why are we hearing about it from *UK* researchers ? Oh wait, something about it being cheap.. All that's needed is for President Trump to endorse using it and the CDC will ban it in a New York Minute.
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posted on
06/16/2020 9:41:05 AM PDT
by
Timocrat
(Ingnorantia non excusat)
To: z3n
Reducing deaths by one-fifth? Not even a 50% likelihood of saving a life? Fake news
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posted on
06/16/2020 12:19:03 PM PDT
by
WLusvardi
(Drudge Fudges)
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