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Cheap drug is first shown to improve COVID-19 survival

by AP Chief Medical Writer
| June 16, 2020 1:03 PM

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.

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