Posted on 06/16/2020 7:01:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
Dexamethasone, a cheap and widely used steroid, has become the first drug shown to be able to save lives among COVID-19 patients in what scientists hailed as a “major breakthrough”.
Results of trials announced on Tuesday showed dexamethasone, which is used to reduce inflammation in other diseases, reduced death rates by around a third among the most severely ill COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital.
The results suggest the drug should immediately become standard care in patients with severe cases of the pandemic disease, said the researchers who led the trials.
“This is a result that shows that if patients who have COVID-19 and are on ventilators or are on oxygen are given dexamethasone, it will save lives, and it will do so at a remarkably low cost,” said Martin Landray, an Oxford University professor co-leading the trial, known as the RECOVERY trial.
“It’s going to be very hard for any drug really to replace this, given that for less than 50 pounds ($63.26), you can treat eight patients and save a life,” he told reporters in an online briefing.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, and Z-Pac for prevention. Dexamethasone for the seriously ill.
Now if we can prevent doctors from needlessly putting patients on ventilators and governors from sticking Covid positive patients in nursing homes there will be no serious second wave.
Half the current deaths could’ve been prevented with common sense and unbiased science. Cuomo and others should be jailed as mass murderers.
Here in democrat gov Sisolak’s Nevada the doctors are free to prescribe HCQ for COVID-19.
The pharmacies are not allowed to fill those prescriptions.
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I like that there are many many patients, but, I still don’t understand fully.
Are they saying it only saves 1 in 8 on Ventilators? Does that mean 7 still die?
It stated that they gave up that drug as it was not helpful.
Sorry, but I’ll trust real experiments of doctors over Trump.
It’s cheap? It will be outlawed. See HCQ.
Not according to the article.
Yeah, after Oxford did a hydroxi-only trial to try to discredit it.
Yeah, after Oxford did a hydroxi-only trial to try to discredit it.
Ha, ha... The forth leading cause of death in the United States is medical mistakes, up to 440,000 a year. It did not take long for the hydroxychloroquine studies become political, not scientific.
With all the death and infections we still don’t the answer to a simple few questions.
They need years of testing /s
How does the pharmacist know if you haven’t recently been diagnosed with lupus or rheumatoid arthritis?
I've read (and been told) that steroids aren't useful in cases of pneumonia, but I think that's because of their effect on the immune response. Seems to me if you're in exceedingly dire straits the first thing you need to do is get the inflammation down and worry about immune response later. A few years ago my wife had severe pneumonitis which responded very quickly to prednisone treatments. As an asthmatic, in the past I've been treated with both cortisone and prednisone for severe attacks of bronchitis. In every case my condition improved almost immediately.
Sometimes the medical people are too clever for their own (or rather your own) good.
This is great news.
If I read some of those “studies” correctly, they were using higher doses of HCQ or CQ which were ones where the heart problems were happening.
“For the love of God, Mr. President, PLEASE don’t endorse this medication.”
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I was getting ready to post the exact same sentiment till I saw yours.lol
MSM are like a bunch of little kids. So easy to see through their little minds.
This experiment involved thousands of patients, including for HCQ. It’s more scientific than Trump simply declaring something sounding good.
Of course we don’t have all answers, but it looks enough now we should stop hyperventilating about this disease and move on.
Those studies in Lancet and Infectious Disease are questionable.
I think the effectiveness of treatment, is to reduce the cytokine storm. For that you need a combination of drugs.
It’s another medicine for attacking the cytokine storm the immune system creates trying a massive overwhelming attack on the virus, which winds up being a massive inflammatory attack on all sorts of internal tissues.
Currently used steroids, already doing the job in severe Wuhan Virus cases, are maybe more expensive or not as good as Dexamethasone.
However, Dexamethasone could suddenly become less inexpensive as demand for it increases globally, to treat Wuhan Virus cases.
And, what was not mentioned about the study promoting the use of Dexamethasone is whether or not the patients that did not get Dexamethasone simply also got no other steroids. We already know use of steroids is the way to quiet the cytokine storm and that is already being done.
I’m wondering how much one of the makers of the currently cheap Dexamethasone promoted the study and the Reuters article. It would be a good way to get its retail price up.
He didn’t “recommend” it. He simply said, “that’s great; it could be game changer.” And I still think it was. But, that’s all he needed to say for the Media to warp his words into something else.
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