00:00It certainly cut the death rate in a randomised clinical trial.
00:04The 28-day mortality rate is decreased by 17%,
00:07so that's nearly a fifth of people surviving
00:10that perhaps wouldn't have survived without dexamethasone.
00:14Dexamethasone has been around for a long time.
00:17It suppresses the immune response
00:19when that becomes overwhelming and dangerous.
00:22So we know that in some people,
00:24with the inflammation that the COVID-19 virus causes,
00:27you get an outpouring of fluid into the lungs,
00:29you get inflammation, and this suppresses all of that.
00:32We've used this...
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