#Dexaméthasone

Nick Mark MD

nickmmark

Pre-print of #RECOVERY RCT shows actual data about reduced #COVID mortality with #Dexamethasone: - mortality 21.6% compared to 24.6% w/ usual care- greatest benefit in sickest patients- for pt on

Barton

Barton_options

Many asked me about dexamethasone today. Sadly, another over-hyped "miracle" drug by certain fame-crazed doctors and science reporters. the effectiveness of dexamethasone for *severe* COVID patients is neither surprising nor

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Last week, a press released provided initial and promising results from a large scale trial of the corticosteroid dexamethasone in hospitalized COVID patients. Today the authors released a full report:

Francisco Marty, MD

FranciscoMarty_

Tabulated the topline results released by the #recoverytrial team on #hydroxychloroquine & #dexamethasone, and went over their protocol (https://www.recoverytrial.net/results ) to better digest them.Basic stuff:- hospitalized patie

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

In the first two months of the pandemic, 85,000 cases of #covid19 were reported, says @DrTedros at the start of @WHO presser on #covid19. "In the past two months 6

Dr. Swapneil Parikh

swapneilparikh

Those of us following #RECOVERYtrial know it’s one of the most important clinical trials for COVID-19, not just for its potential to identify new therapeutic options but also to temper

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

I would like to share the story of how a patient with cancer came up with the idea for a randomized trial, & how listening to him saved a lot

ChaiCoffsKey

ZTan14377

Ok,social scientists, time to sit down, shut up and listen.1)DEXAMETHASONE IS A STEROID THAT IS USED TO TREAT THE HAVOC THAT THE CORONAVIRUS WREAKS ON THE IMUNE SYSTEM KNOWN AS

Francisco Marty, MD

FranciscoMarty_

Updated the #RECOVERYtrial topline results summary table of the #dexamethasone arm compared to usual care for treatment of hospitalized patients with #COVID19.Got additional information colleagues shared in Twitter.Thread with some

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Woke up to Twitter going wild about #dexamethasone treatment for #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #coronavirus infection.Went to look at the paper. Still looking...uh oh, this looks like another case of trial results

Robert Dingwall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 Reunite

rwjdingwall

There is currently a great deal of fear-mongering about Christmas visits in the UK. In order to assess the risk associated with a family or social visit within the rules,

alberto bisin

albertobisin

Interesting discussion these days about various versions of this figure (this one is taken from the NYTimes). 1/n The typical reaction has been to point out that U.S. policies have

Matt McCarthy

DrMattMcCarthy

UPDATE: COVID medicine has changed substantially over the past few months. The questions we're grappling with today are very different than the ones we were dealing with just a few

John West 🕯💙

JohnWest_JAWS

Let's be clear - The UK study trial of Dexamethasone is important.The early ventilation in Covid (as used in ARDS) produced bad outcomes - which is counter intuitive This is

Imperial NIHR BRC Infection

BRCinfection

Today seems like a good day to talk about the Recovery trial (http://recoverytrial.net ). Mortality for patients hospitalised with COVID-19 locally remains c30% and, until yesterday, no treatment was shown to

Joey

DrJoyeeta

Seeing the number of people dying in the US and the U.K., reminds me of the time post Diwali when we were seeing nearly 90,000 cases per day . Hospitals

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