Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 August 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid 19: Implications of a Zero-Covid Island Policy

Professor Anthony Staines:

Treatment is not my specialist area but my understanding is that the treatment of people who are severely ill with Covid-19 has been substantially improved by the use of dexamethasone and proning, which essentially is the act of nursing someone face down. That improves the patient's ability to ventilate for reasons I do not understand.

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