Thank God Alhamdullillah

This one na bad news for ncdc and FG... no more cashing out

Seun:
The leaders of the RECOVERY drug trial in the UK, who are testing the effects of many existing drugs on COVID-19 patients, have announced that the drug dexamethasone, which is very cheap (for now) and available in most countries (including ours), has been experimentally proven to reduce the risk of death of people with severe cases of the Coronavirus disease.

They administered 6mg of dexamethasone daily (by tablet or by injection) to 2104 COVID-19 patients for ten days. After 28 days, they compared the results of this treatment to the normal treatment which 4321 other patients received. They discovered that the drug reduces the risk of death in patients who are on oxygen or on the ventilator.

* For patients who were so sick that they had to be placed on a ventilator, dexamethasone reduced their risk of death from 40% to 28%. For every 8 COVID-19 patients on the ventilator treated with this drug, 1 additional life was saved.

* For patients sick enough to be placed on oxygen, the risk of death dropped by from 25% to 20%. For every 25 patients on oxygen treated, 1 additional life was saved.

* For patients who were not sick enough to be placed on oxygen or a ventilator, the researchers did not observe any significant improvement.

Sources:

https://www.recoverytrial.net/files/recovery_dexamethasone_statement_160620_final.pdf

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53061281

This is good news for Ex-Governor Abiola Ajimobi and other Nigerian COVID-19 patients in intensive care. The benefit seems modest but remember, that improvement is relative to the standard treatment in the UK.

BUHARI SHOULD CATCH THIS S. H. I. T. Y disease and save Nigerians from all the TRASHY style of governance that he has used to run the nation.

Watch how the price of this purportedly "cheap drug" will shoot up in the Nigerian drug market, just as the case of chloroquine. I pray retailers are not allowed to sell it.

Good development

WHO will soon counter this again, waiting to hear from them.

Excessive use of steroids like dexamethasone is equally as dangerous

Biko for the sake of goodness, how did a steroidal antiinflammatory agent which reduces the efficiency of the immune system help people with covid-19? I will search for the full text of this study sha.

Vaccine for Corvid-19 has been discovered and mass production would be ready by end of the year.
US, France, have already placed order of four hundred million vaccines.

I would look for the article on News Repu lic

After being saved from death, what remain is money making for survival

see below for how

if this drug really works, the poor citizens of nigeria wont be able to afford the drug becase the price will rise like a burning gas tank.

and i know it wil be free of charge in other coutries.

our leaders are worthless bastards.

Its maketed as Dexacortin here in naija, most women do take it for weight addition.

wonder233:
WHO, Bill Gates, CNN and 'woke' nairaland psuedo-intellectuals won't like this.

Watch how vehemently a coordinated campaign of vigorous rebuttal would be waged in the coming days discrediting this drug and the study.

My advice still remains: my people, do all you can to stay alive, take your ginger, garlic, honey, dogonyaro, chloroquine, vitamin C, Madagascar tonic, etc...they all work.
Resist anyone who tells you the best option is to just lay down and die like Ambode rather than fight like Obaseki.

Bill Gates, WHO and Dr Fauci dem na only the 666 vaccine dey dia mind so they must definitely find a way to discredit this latest developments...

Seun:
The leaders of the RECOVERY drug trial in the UK, who are testing the effects of many existing drugs on COVID-19 patients, have announced that the drug dexamethasone, which is very cheap (for now) and available in most countries (including ours), has been experimentally proven to reduce the risk of death of people with severe cases of the Coronavirus disease.

They administered 6mg of dexamethasone daily (by tablet or by injection) to 2104 COVID-19 patients for ten days. After 28 days, they compared the results of this treatment to the normal treatment which 4321 other patients received. They discovered that the drug reduces the risk of death in patients who are on oxygen or on the ventilator.

* For patients who were so sick that they had to be placed on a ventilator, dexamethasone reduced their risk of death from 40% to 28%. For every 8 COVID-19 patients on the ventilator treated with this drug, 1 additional life was saved.

* For patients sick enough to be placed on oxygen, the risk of death dropped by from 25% to 20%. For every 25 patients on oxygen treated, 1 additional life was saved.

* For patients who were not sick enough to be placed on oxygen or a ventilator, the researchers did not observe any significant improvement.

Sources:

https://www.recoverytrial.net/files/recovery_dexamethasone_statement_160620_final.pdf

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53061281

This is good news for Ex-Governor Abiola Ajimobi and other Nigerian COVID-19 patients in intensive care. The benefit seems modest but remember, that improvement is relative to the standard treatment in the UK.

its Just N50 here in Nigeria...

Seun:


This is good news for Ex-Governor Abiola Ajimobi and other Nigerian COVID-19 patients in intensive care. The benefit seems modest but remember, that improvement is relative to the standard treatment in the UK.

Was wondering who this smart Nairalander is until I checked his moniker.

Buhari will surely be shocked at this news.

For patients who were not sick enough to be placed on oxygen or a ventilator, the researchers did not observe any significant improvement.
...I don't understand the above statement ,does it means that the drug will only work for people that are very sick on oxygen or Ventilator alone and not for people with little symptoms ?

Actually, they may be right to some extent because I as a person, i have been on that same drug for the past 10 years (xasten). I use it for cattar and pain on the joints. It works wonders. I could breath very well when used especially in the night which allows me to have a very sound sleep. It is when it is abused by people that they tend to call it maawu

Craziestgirl:
Folks,
we are getting closer to victory.
A reduction of the risk of death from 40% to 28%. is a Major advance.
Meanwhile, please don't dump the facemasks yet. Cover-up and give gaps.

Facemask that people have neatly placed back into their boxes

It all about time

wonder233:
WHO, Bill Gates, CNN and 'woke' nairaland psuedo-intellectuals won't like this.
Watch how vehemently a coordinated campaign of vigorous rebuttal would be waged in the coming days discrediting this drug and the study.

I really pity you.
This was credible research by researchers with apparently no vested interest and not a pronouncement
by the orange Buffon in the Whitehouse or some idiot teenager on YouTube.
It would actually be a liability for a news medium not to report it. Just check the source, it is not
from YouTube, Reddit or 4chan.

Also, medicine isn't based on a single poorly executed research.

You should have wisened up since most of the things they predicted for you turn out to be lies.
How about those vaccines that are being hidden?
How about the 5G?
How about the mark of the beast?

You are no longer a kid, stop thinking like one.

My advice still remains: my people, do all you can to stay alive, take your ginger, garlic, honey, dogonyaro, chloroquine, vitamin C, Madagascar tonic, etc...they all work.
Resist anyone who tells you the best option is to just lay down and die like Ambode rather than fight like Obaseki.

Your advice is useless.
You could have asked people to jump 10 times a day and the effect will be the same.
Unpredictable and non-causative.

This is a good news very soon we will get to see the end of Covid19.

I know this drug. It can also make one gain unnecessary weight. It empties the stomach and make you eat to much. You go just the fat like mumu..

LARGE STUDY? LOL

DenreleDave:
I know Nigerian govt wunt take this serious..


They are still looting our national treasury..


One suspect burnt to death in ogoja, calabar


Meanwhile a convicted polithiefcian who has looted over billions of naira is celebrated on the same street by same people...

DenreleDave:
I know Nigerian govt wunt take this serious..


They are still looting our national treasury..


One suspect burnt to death in ogoja, calabar


Meanwhile a convicted polithiefcian who has looted over billions of naira is celebrated on the same street by same people...

JONNYSPUTE:
....By tomorrow the price will skyrocket.

Trust Nigerians.Some people will even be admitted for taking overdose of the drugs.

Fake ones will be in the market by tomorrow.

MASTERCHIEF0847:

Fake ones will be in the market by tomorrow.

....True.

Watch how your Nigerian pharmacists will skyrocket the price in the next few days... A sachet of Xasten brand that goes for 50 Naira will become 500.

Heartless things!!!

wonder233:
WHO, Bill Gates, CNN and 'woke' nairaland psuedo-intellectuals won't like this.

Watch how vehemently a coordinated campaign of vigorous rebuttal would be waged in the coming days discrediting this drug and the study.

My advice still remains: my people, do all you can to stay alive, take your ginger, garlic, honey, dogonyaro, chloroquine, vitamin C, Madagascar tonic, etc...they all work.
Resist anyone who tells you the best option is to just lay down and die like Ambode rather than fight like Obaseki.

Are you not tired of all this already?

Phyde:
WHO will soon counter this again, waiting to hear from them.

and cnn