Death rates among people ending up in intensive care for Covid-19 have improved significantly since the onset of the pandemic thanks to advances in treatment, a new study has found.
The percentage of those most affected by the disease and dying has dropped from 60%, when it first appeared at the beginning of last year, to 36% by October. The findings, based on 52 studies across the globe involving 43,128 patients, were published in the medical journal Anesthesia.
The five authors, all specialists of the National Health Service of the United Kingdom in intensive care, were led by Prof. Tim Cook, a very prominent person who works at the United Kingdom Hospital in Bath, Somerset.
The improvement is due to greater use of steroids such as dexamethasone and changes in the way patients with Covid receive oxygen and fluid therapy and how the risk of blood clots is managed.
The average mortality rate in Europe is 33.4% while in North America 40%.
Sources: Guardian, Euronews
