‘Doctors to improve in treating COVID-19 before a vaccine is developed’

dc.contributor.author	Moche, Tshepi
dc.date.accessioned	2020-10-20T08:40:42Z
dc.date.available	2020-10-20T08:40:42Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	Director of research development at the University of the Western Cape Professor Burtram Fielding says there is a strong possibility that doctors will get better at treating and saving the lives of COVID-19 patients before a vaccine is developed. The Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19 has advised that patients on ventilators may now receive a corticosteroid as part of their treatment plan. The corticosteroid contains dexamethasone, which a trial treatment from the United Kingdom showed that when used the fatality rate of mechanically ventilated patients could be cut by a third.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Moche, T. (2020). 'Doctors to improve in treating COVID-19 before a vaccine is developed'. SABC news. SABC.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/doctors-to-improve-in-treating-covid-19-before-a-vaccine-is-developed/
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10566/5289
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	SABC	en_US
dc.subject	Covid-19	en_US
dc.subject	Eastern Cape	en_US
dc.subject	The corticosteroid	en_US
dc.subject	Increasing number of dearth cases	en_US
dc.subject	Development of vaccine	en_US
dc.title	‘Doctors to improve in treating COVID-19 before a vaccine is developed’	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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