Dexamethasone helps dying Covid 19 Patients
Begin with breaking news on what could be a breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus doctors in england say they’ve discovered the first drug that dramatically reduces deaths and kovat 19 patients and it turns out it’s already on the market the drug is a low-cost steroid called dexamethasone and researchers say in a large trial it cut deaths among the sickest
Coronavirus patients by a third tonight doctors are cautiously optimistic that if the research pans out the drug could eventually help save hundreds of thousands of lives the new study comes as nearly half of the states in the u.s. are struggling with spikes in cases including in florida where tonight the state has its highest number of new infections since the
Pandemic began oklahoma texas and arizona are also reporting record highs in new cases today and has become on the air tonight more than a hundred and sixteen thousand people have been killed by the virus in the us and there are more than two point two million confirmed cases nationwide tonight there’s also new research that says wearing masks could prevent hundreds
Of thousands of infections by stopping the spread of virus droplets in the air so there’s a lot of news to get to tonight and our team of correspondence is standing by cbs’s manuel bojorquez is going to lead off our coverage tonight from miami good evening manny good evening nora florida has set yet another daily record more than 2700 new coronavirus cases were
Reported today hospitalizations are also up in several states so word of a medical advancement could not come soon enough it’s being called a medical breakthrough in the fight against the corona virus the world’s largest trial of existing treatments found a cheap decades-old anti inflammatories steroid called dexamethasone reduce deaths by 20% in kovat 19 patients
On oxygen what we saw was really quite remarkable in ventilated patients with coffered 19 the drug dexamethasone so 10 days of treatment with that which is a tablet or oral injection reduces the risk of death by about 35% florida governor ron de santis says he will not close the state to suppress a of working-age people at this point i don’t think would likely be
Very effective still miami’s mayor put the next phase of reopening on hold due to recent spikes austin’s mayor extended a stay at home order and nevada’s governor said the state was not ready to enter phase 3 there was encouraging news today about the economy retail sales jumped to nearly 18 percent last month a record as more businesses and restaurants reopened
The question is whether that comes at the expense of social distancing norah minimoho qez thank you
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