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UK experts were keen to get the good news out as soon as possible that a steroid called dexamethasone could save the lives of people seriously ill with coronavirus.
Drug trial findings are usually published in a medical journal after being evaluated or "peer-reviewed" by other experts but that takes time. The investigators behind the dexamethasone study say that as soon as it became clear that the results were so significant and of instant global importance they went public.
All of the usual checks and measures will still happen but, in the meantime, lives can be saved if doctors start giving the drug to the sickest patients who could benefit.
Dexamethasone is cheap and widely available and, according to the research, cuts the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. The UK already has a stockpile of 200,000 doses that are “ready to go” for National Health Service patients.
The drug is generic which means there won't be the issue of big pharmaceutical companies charging lots of money for it - something that can happen with new drugs. And it’s easy to make, meaning production can be scaled up quickly to get it out to more patients around the world.
Drug trial findings are usually published in a medical journal after being evaluated or "peer-reviewed" by other experts but that takes time. The investigators behind the dexamethasone study say that as soon as it became clear that the results were so significant and of instant global importance they went public.
All of the usual checks and measures will still happen but, in the meantime, lives can be saved if doctors start giving the drug to the sickest patients who could benefit.
Dexamethasone is cheap and widely available and, according to the research, cuts the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. The UK already has a stockpile of 200,000 doses that are “ready to go” for National Health Service patients.
The drug is generic which means there won't be the issue of big pharmaceutical companies charging lots of money for it - something that can happen with new drugs. And it’s easy to make, meaning production can be scaled up quickly to get it out to more patients around the world.
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There's even a scientist attending today.
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Handjob will be fuming
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Cometh the hour, cometh the man.
And the man is Boris  |
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Great news!!!
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Johnson trying to quickly move on from yet another embarrassing u-turn but Vallance stops him ....
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Johnson had absolutely no idea who Marcus Rashford was 24 hours ago, now bending to his requests.
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Or he forgot about the second question for Valance.
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Pretty poor we need to give into campaigns from filthy rich footballers, welcome to 2020.
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Pretty poor that such a campaign was even needed.
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Good man Rashford,leave the children particulary from poor areas have some food,who can begrudge them that.
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What are those families spending their money on pray tell. Already living off the tax payer in term time.
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He says he only found out about Marcus rashford campaign today
They can't help themselves, can they. |
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Lewis Goodall
@lewis_goodall PM repeatedly congratulating Marcus Rashford “and his campaign” does feel a little odd, given the only reason the campaign existed in the first place was government policy... |
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What about Rees Moggs companies in the Cayman Islands Cider,not a sausage to the children or 1p to the upkeep of the UK.
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If they rely upon the tax payer in term time and have no spare cash
What happens when they have an extra mouth to feed in holidays? Not rocket science to know these kids deserve the guarantee of a hot meal in the holidays |
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Madgaret Thatcher... Milk snatcher
Boris johnson failed dinner thief Rees mugg tax avoider |
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What does no spare cash mean? After the £60 pcm mobile contract? After beer and ****, weed, netflix, holidays? if you've got little or no rent, no council tax, UC, child benefit. Why should the state pay for people to have kids when they can't afford them otherwise. I couldn't imagine having kids and not being able to feed them myself.
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Flounder
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Get the tax avoiders to pay their dues and give the children a meal.
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Those are detached arguments. Surely minimising taxation legally is something any sane person should be doing. Certainly that's what I do, and mitigate against risk.
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Brilliant, out of nowhere pops a magic cure and all is well
That's how it works I suppose, they just test these drugs on people in hospital, Guinea pigs for a disease and it doesn't matter if it kills them eh its all good They must think we're all thick as pig s***  |
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Speak for yourself.
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every single free thinker like Cider out there just throwing out scrounger narratives like usual
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They've got this magic cure? yet 41,000 have died
So what is it? a magic cure or not? |
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It's not a cure it's a treatment.
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I thought Marcus explained the circumstances very very from his own experiences.
Not many school kids pay for own meals. Even fewer repay the free meals they received by feeding next generation. Cider must have dun a milk round to pay for his school dinners, perhaps? |
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Magic sponge treatment from out of nowhere
They've took the utter pish and now need to find a way out of it ? |
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You need a safety net for people who fall on hard times. Not a lifestyle choice.
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Very well**
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I did a paper round, 6.30 am before school, and at the weekend for £10 a week if you must know. I grew up on a council estate. My Dad was made redundant twice. I have experienced both sides of the coin.
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Boris and his magic sponge
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Really amazing news today.
Looks like 1 in 8 deaths (12.5%) can be avoided going forward. This is the start of the fight back to get back to normal. As someone living with someone shielding this is the best news for months!!! |
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You can really see the false narrative exposed when we get that news IT, and the media persists with its virtue signalling agenda.
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Including of course dear old auntie.
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It is great news I t
And if drug works even better in combinations there could be more good news ahead. Fingers crossed |
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Can someone explains something about this drug? From what I can see it may cut deaths of ventilated patients by 30% and those who
need oxygen by a fifth but doesnt help people who arent ventilated/oxygenated. Who are these people? Are they the ones who dont actually die from covid but of other things after testing positive for it? |