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Anchor lead: More trials to establish best practices for use of dexamethasone in different populations are needed, Elizabeth Tracey reports A trial known as RECOVERY in the UK revealed the news that many people with severe COVID-19 infection could benefit …
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Anchor lead: Overdose deaths are increasing along with COVID-19 mortality, Elizabeth Tracey reports Deaths from drug overdoses are reaching record levels even as those from COVID-19 continue to climb, CDC data reveal. Eric Strain, a drug abuse expert at Johns …
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Anchor lead: Antibody treatment may point the way to why some people with COVID-19 get critically ill while others don’t, Elizabeth Tracey reports Antibodies don’t tell the whole story when it comes to the development of critical illness in people …
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Anchor lead: In the rather bleak landscape of COVID-19, convalescent plasma emerges as a bright spot, Elizabeth Tracey reports Convalescent plasma treatment, where antibodies in the blood of someone who has recovered from COVID-19 are given to hospitalized people with …
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Anchor lead: When should using convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 be tried? Elizabeth Tracey reports Convalescent plasma, which is a component of the blood taken from people who’ve recovered from COVID-19, seems to help people who are hospitalized with the …
