Researchers from Recovery Trial in UK announced on June 16 that a cheap and widely used steroid, dexamethasone, is claimed to be the first vaccine for saving life of severe ill corona virus patients , it is not the vaccine for corona but it can reduce the death rate of seriously affected patients on ventilators or needing oxygen.
What is dexamethasone?
Dexamethasone is a low cost and widely available drug, firstly made in 1957 and later approved in 1961 for medical use, before claiming it as the survival cure of corona patients it was used for multiple diseases.
Dexamethasone for multiple diseases:
Inflammation: Dexamethasone is an anti-inflammatory steroid commonly used for controlling damages done by the low immune system of the body.
Cancer: Doctors prescribe dexamethasone for the cancer patients taking chemotherapy, it reduces the side effects of anti-tumor treatments.
Pregnancy: Doctors may recommend dexamethasone, when there is a risk for women to give premature delivery.
Nausea and vomiting: For the patients facing nausea and vomiting after surgery can be prescribed dexamethasone by the doctors.
Sore throat: Dexamethasone can cure sore throat on a single dose.
Corona virus and dexamethasone:
Amid the pandemic of deadly corona virus people maintaining social distance and following precautions to be be safe as much as they can, with more than 3 million active cases and 457,269 deaths worldwide till now people have been waiting for the vaccine to be developed meanwhile scientists and researchers from the world working restlessly to develop curable vaccine asap.
Three days ago scientists from UK-based Recovery Trial working at Oxford University claimed that dexamethasone is the first vaccine of deadly COVID-19 for the severe patients in critical condition.
Using this steroid the number of deaths have been reduced; it decreased the death rate of the patients on ventilators from 40 to 28 per cent whereas in the patients needing oxygen the death rate reduced from 25 to 20 per cent.
Nonetheless, the patients with no need of any oxygen or having low symptoms of COVID-19 can not avail any cure from dexamethasone.
One thing to remember that there is still no vaccine for corona, dexamethasone is just to reduce deaths and make more survivals.
All should follow safety precautions, stay healthy and safe..!
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