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WHO says using dexamethasone is a “scientific breakthrough”

The drug is the first with proven positive results against covid, according to a study by researchers at Oxford University.

The World Health Organization (WHO) considered that the use of dexamethasone, a medication in the family of steroids, which significantly reduced mortality in patients seriously affected by the new coronavirus is a “scientific advance” in the fight against the pandemic.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that this is the “first proven treatment that reduces mortality in patients” who can only breathe using a ventilator, cited by the agency France-Presse.

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