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The risk of dying in hospital from coronavirus may have almost halved in the second wave, when compared with the first period of the pandemic, current affairs show Nieuwsuur has reported.
Research involving almost 1,000 patients at eight Dutch hospitals shows a 47% drop in the number of people dying when compared with the first wave, Nieuwsuur said.
Leiden professor Menno Huisman, one of the research project leaders, told the programme that better methods of treatment are likely to be responsible. ‘We think that using the anti-inflammatory drug Dexamethasone may have had a beneficial impact on survival,’ he said.