{"id":7563,"date":"2020-06-16T15:11:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7563"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:12:06","slug":"coronavirus-breakthrough-dexamethasone-is-first-drug-shown-to-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/16\/coronavirus-breakthrough-dexamethasone-is-first-drug-shown-to-save-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus breakthrough: dexamethasone is first drug shown to save lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Researchers\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">leading the RECOVERY (Randomised\u00a0Evaluation of COVid-19\u00a0thERapY) trial at Oxford University\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recoverytrial.net\/news\/low-cost-dexamethasone-reduces-death-by-up-to-one-third-in-hospitalised-patients-with-severe-respiratory-complications-of-covid-19\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">released a statement today<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">distributed widely by media outlets indicating\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that their trial found that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the steroid<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0dexamethasone reduced deaths in ventilated patients (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0.65; 95% CI: 0.48<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a00.88) and in other patients receiving oxygen only (RR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0.80; 95% CI: 0.67<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a00.96).<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The trial has not been\u00a0published, but\u00a0was featured in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a news article by the journal\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Nature<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0cited below<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ledford<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">. (<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">June\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">16<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">, 2020)<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Coronavirus breakthrough: dexamethasone is first drug shown to save lives<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Nature<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[news article]<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-020-01824-5\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-020-01824-5<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers\u00a0leading the RECOVERY (Randomised\u00a0Evaluation of COVid-19\u00a0thERapY) trial at Oxford University\u00a0released a statement today\u00a0distributed widely by media outlets indicating\u00a0that their trial found that\u00a0the steroid\u00a0dexamethasone reduced deaths in ventilated patients (RR=0.65; 95% CI: 0.48,\u00a00.88) and in other patients receiving oxygen only (RR=0.80; 95% CI: 0.67,\u00a00.96).\u00a0The trial has not been\u00a0published, but\u00a0was featured in\u00a0a news article by the journal\u00a0Nature\u00a0cited&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/16\/coronavirus-breakthrough-dexamethasone-is-first-drug-shown-to-save-lives\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-7563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7564,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563\/revisions\/7564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7563"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}