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Virus breakthrough as £5 steroid found to cut hospital deaths by up to a third

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Covid-19 after it was found to reduce deaths by up to a third. The drug, dexamethasone, is readily available in hospitals and should now become the "standard of care" in UK Covid-19 patients on ventilators or oxygen, researchers say.

They add that this could be done as soon as later on Tuesday, or on Wednesday with advice going out to all NHS hospitals within the next 24 hours.

A study found the steroid cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators, and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Researchers estimate that if they had known what they now know about the drug’s effectiveness at the start of the pandemic, 4,000 to 5,000 lives could have been saved.

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