The World Health Organization has confirmed that the Corona vaccine will not be available on a global scale before the middle of next year, according to Al Arabiya TV in urgent news.
Since the emergence of the Covid-19 epidemic late last year, and the acceleration of scientific efforts exerted with unprecedented intensity on several fronts in order to find a treatment or a vaccine against it, for the first time, the World Health Organization explicitly recommends the use of anti-inflammatory corticosteroids in the treatment of dangerous disease cases caused by a virus The new Corona. According to the Middle East newspaper.
This recommendation came attached with a warning against the use of these drugs, in any case, to treat minor injuries, after reviewing the results of a group of clinical studies and laboratory data for trials that included 1,700 dangerous Covid-19 cases in 12 countries, and showed that treatment with these drugs is currently the most Effective in cases requiring extreme care.
According to the results of these studies, which have been subject to several comparisons and have been published in the most prominent scientific journals, there are three types of these drugs that have been shown to reduce the mortality rate to a third among patients who need oxygen or artificial respirators, that is, those who have reached the most dangerous stage of the disease, where Inflammation in the bronchi is no longer the main threat to a patient’s life, but rather the reaction of the immune system and its response to the viral infection..
The WHO experts say that the results of these studies confirm and expand in more detail the clinical trials that were conducted last June, according to which the drug “Dexamethasone” is the first capable of saving Covid 19 patients with serious conditions..
The new results add to this drug two other compounds, namely “hydrocortisone” and “methylprednisolone”, which reduce the mortality rate of severe cases by 31%. The three drugs are widely used in the treatment of acute and chronic inflammatory conditions. They are easily available and at low prices..
While the World Health Organization responded to the request of the specialists who conducted these studies to make cortisone drugs a “first line of treatment” on the front of care for serious cases, its experts warned that these drugs “despite being the most effective at the present time for treating serious infections with Covid 19, are still very far away.” About considering it a complete and final victory over the epidemic».
Experts called for continued research on the effectiveness of these compounds and the most appropriate doses for their use.
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