Dexamethasone
No.10 lists vaccination rollout, testing and Dexamethasone as success stories, but resists calls for immediate inquiry into 126,000 deaths.
"It's still the only drug that’s been demonstrated to save the lives of patients with Covid."
Doctors not involved in treating the president said the fact that he is on the steroid dexamethasone means his coronavirus infection is severe.
Scientists have hailed a cheap steroid as a “major breakthrough” in the fight against Covid-19.
Boris Johnson said it would be "peculiar" to introduce the ban, which the Department for Health and Social Care had introduced hours earlier.
The UK has a stockpile of 200,000 courses of dexamethasone, which significantly reduces the Covid-19 death rate for patients on oxygen.
One scientist from Oxford University said the steroid is "the only drug that has so far shown to reduce mortality, and it reduces it significantly".