Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
UK investigators say a drug reduced Covid-19 deaths for the first time. The world ponders what to do next
In the hours after UK investigators said that, for the first time, a drug had been shown to help prevent deaths in Covid-19 patients, a world of doctors, public health researchers and regulators were left trying to figure out what it meant and how to respond.
Britain’s NHS acted first, authorizing the drug, a generic steroid called dexamethasone, within hours of the study announcement. Praising the study’s investigators, the agency said the drug would become the new standard of care and available throughout the country.
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