claim: steroids cut deaths of hospitalized covid-19 patients by one-two
evidence_1: corticosteroids are the first, and so far only, therapy shown to improve the odds of survival for critically ill patients with covid-19.", "the first evidence that common steroids could improve the survival of patients with severe covid-19 came in june when british researchers conducting a large clinical trial called recovery reported that the use of dexamethasone reduced the death rate by 35% in patients requiring ventilation and by 20% in patients who needed oxygen but were not ventilated.", 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "but it cautioned against use of the steroids in patients with non-severe illness, saying that indiscriminate use of any therapy for covid-19 would potentially rapidly deplete global resources and deprive patients who may benefit from it most as potentially life-saving therapy. advertisement the consistent findings of benefit in these studies provide definitive data that corticosteroids should be first-line treatment for critically ill patients with covid-19, said hallie prescott and todd rice, professors of medicine at the university of michigan and vanderbilt university, respectively, in an accompanying jama editorial."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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