Steroid for virus a highly welcome antidote
17 Jun 2020
At a time when the global coronavirus scourge has affected over 8 million people, the discovery of a cheap drug by scientists in the UK signals a major light at the end of a tunnel of no-escape from the killer disease. Scientists in the UK have discovered that dexamethasone, a cheap steroid, can cut deaths in severely ill coronavirus patients by a third, which British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed as the “biggest breakthrough yet”.