{"id":94047,"date":"2020-06-16T12:16:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94047"},"modified":"2020-06-16T18:23:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:23:20","slug":"bbc-coronavirus-dexamethasone-proves-first-life-saving-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94047","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.<\/p>\n<p>The drug is part of the world&#8217;s biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-53061281\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Let&#8217;s hope for the good.<br \/>\nCoronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lgLSV9N43z\">https:\/\/t.co\/lgLSV9N43z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Khawar Ghumman (@Ghummans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ghummans\/status\/1272898254603202561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say. The drug is part<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94047\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,104,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94049,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94047\/revisions\/94049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}