A Low-Cost Steroid Shows Promise for Treating COVID-19. But Take the News with a Grain of Salt

BySuhani Sharma
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https://time.com/5854416/dexamethasone-covid-19/

Encouraging results from researchers looking into potential COVID-19 treatments are being hailed as a “groundbreaking development”—but recent history shows it’s worth taking these promising findings with a grain of salt.

Investigators working on the U.K.-based RECOVERY trial announced today that dexamethasone, a low-cost and widely available steroid that lowers inflammation,

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