{"id":108748,"date":"2020-06-16T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/researchers-cheap-drug-improves-covid-19-survival"},"modified":"2020-06-16T11:03:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:03:31","slug":"researchers-cheap-drug-improves-covid-19-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/researchers-cheap-drug-improves-covid-19-survival","title":{"rendered":"Researchers: Cheap drug improves COVID-19 survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-cheap-drug-improves-covid-19-survival2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in England say they have the first evidence that a drug can improve COVID-19 survival: A cheap, widely available steroid reduced deaths by up to one third in severely ill hospitalized patients.<\/p>\n<p>The results were announced Tuesday and the British government immediately authorized the drug\u2019s use across the United Kingdom for coronavirus patients like those who did well in the study. Researchers said they would publish results soon, and several independent experts said it\u2019s important to see details to know how much of a difference the drug, dexamethasone, might make and for whom.<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cbottom line is, good news,\u201d said the United States\u2019 top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. \u201cThis is a significant improvement in the available therapeutic options that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in England say they have the first evidence that a drug can improve COVID-19 survival: A cheap, widely available steroid reduced deaths by up to one third in severely ill hospitalized patients. The results were announced Tuesday and the British government immediately authorized the drug\u2019s use across the United Kingdom for coronavirus patients like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}