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Steroids cut COVID-19 death rates, but not for everyone – here’s who benefits and who doesn’t

  • Written by Bryan McVerry, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
imageSteroids could do more harm than good in patients with milder cases of COVID-19.Go Nakamura/Getty Images

New studies show that treating critically ill COVID-19 patients with inexpensive steroids can cut their risk of dying from the illness by a third. The results are so clear that the World Health Organization changed its advice on Sept. 2 and now...

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