Several online media outlets have distributed an article titled "There is a life-saving medicine for Coronavirus, we have it in all our pharmacies," which lacks the sources of information and the names of health experts related to the topic announced in the article's title.
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T: The medicine that saves lives from Coronavirus has been found, we have it in all our pharmacies
A cheap and widely available drug called dexamethasone could be the key to the fight against coronavirus. It appears it could help save the lives of seriously ill Covid patients.
British experts have concluded that a treatment with this steroid is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus. It reduces the risk of death by a third for patients placed on ventilators.
For those on oxygen, it reduces the risk by a fifth. The drug is part of the world's largest trial of existing treatments to see if they really work against the coronavirus.
Researchers estimate that if the drug had been available in the UK from the start of the pandemic, more than 5 lives could have been saved. Because it is free, it would also be a huge benefit to poor countries facing high numbers of Covid-19 patients.
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The medicine that saves lives from Coronavirus has been found, we have it in all our pharmacies
The medicine that saves lives from Coronavirus has been found, we have it in all our pharmacies
According to research conducted by hibdrid.info, this text appears to have been taken from the portal shqiptarja.com. Although this medium has the article supplemented with sources of information, as it was translated from a foreign medium, others have distributed it without references and sources.
Link to the article published on shqiptarja.com:
A drug has been found that saves Covid-infected patients from death
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