{"id":672,"date":"2020-11-27T06:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T06:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/?p=672"},"modified":"2020-11-27T06:15:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T06:15:08","slug":"22-nov-2020-remdesivir-dexamethasone-combination-helps-reduce-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/22-nov-2020-remdesivir-dexamethasone-combination-helps-reduce-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"(22 Nov 2020) Remdesivir, Dexamethasone- combination helps reduce mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p id=\"page-title\" class=\"highwire-cite-title\">Effectiveness of remdesivir with and without dexamethasone in hospitalized patients with COVID-19<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.11.19.20234153v1<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In a multicenter, retrospective cohort study,&nbsp; 342 received remdesivir and 157 received remdesivir plus dexamethasone. Remdesivir recipients on room air or nasal cannula oxygen had a faster time to clinical improvement (median 5.0 days [IQR 4.0, 8.0], remdesivir vs. 7.0 days [IQR 5.0, 12.0], control; adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) 1.55 [1.28; 1.87]), yet those requiring higher levels of respiratory support did not benefit. Remdesivir recipients had lower, but statistically insignificant, 28-day mortality (7.6% [23 deaths], remdesivir vs. 14.9% [45 deaths], control). Adding dexamethasone trended toward lower 28-day mortality compared to remdesivir alone (5.1% [8 deaths] vs. 9.2% [17 deaths]; aHR 0.14 [0.02; 1.03]). Remdesivir offered a significantly faster time to clinical improvement among a cohort of predominantly non-white patients hospitalized with COVID-19, particularly with mild-moderate disease. Remdesivir plus dexamethasone may reduce mortality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effectiveness of remdesivir with and without dexamethasone in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.11.19.20234153v1 In a multicenter, retrospective cohort study,&nbsp; 342 received remdesivir and 157 received remdesivir plus dexamethasone. Remdesivir recipients on room air or nasal cannula oxygen had a faster&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/22-nov-2020-remdesivir-dexamethasone-combination-helps-reduce-mortality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(22 Nov 2020) Remdesivir, Dexamethasone- combination helps reduce mortality&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"genericon genericon-next\"><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow"},"categories":[81,4,5],"tags":[68,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclinnovations.org\/covid19monitor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}