The steroid dexamethasone is the first drug shown to reduce COVID-19 deaths
The drug might save one of every eight people on ventilators and one of 25 on oxygen
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Given as intravenous injection, the steroid dexamethasone reduced the number of deaths among COVID-19 patients on ventilators, scientists say in a news release.
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