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WHO Revises COVID-19 Guidelines After Study Shows Steroids Save Lives

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   The World Health Organization issued [1]new guidelines Wednesday on the
   use of lifesaving drugs, hours after a study showed that inexpensive
   steroids cut death rates in the sickest COVID-19 patients.

   The WHO guideline panel made a "strong" recommendation for the use of
   corticosteroid drug therapy, given orally or through an IV, for
   COVID-19 patients in critical and serious condition.

   The panel made a conditional recommendation against using the same
   steroids in people with milder COVID-19 cases.

   The WHO guidelines were developed in collaboration with the nonprofit
   Magic Evidence Ecosystem Foundation and were based on the results from
   eight randomized clinical trials with 7,184 participants.

   One of the analyses was published Wednesday in the Journal of the
   American Medical Association (JAMA).

References

   1. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Corticosteroids-2020.1

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