The same large-scale study that determined that hydroxychloroquine was useless in treating COVID just turned up a promising treatment that has shown results with patients on respirators and patients on oxygen reducing deaths by 20% or more. It does NOT do anything for people who are not already in respiratory distress so hopefully, people won't try to hoard it.
The drug is a steroid I have used as part of chemotherapy, dexamethasone - or as we call it "dex". It's cheap and readily available, and those of us on chemo who take it pretty much hate it because of the side effects, but I doubt those side effects will affect someone on a respirator or receiving oxygen. I'm just kind of blown away that these little pills that I've despised for years turned out to be therapeutic for COVID patients.
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