Severe COVID-19 patients: Prescribing steroids cuts the death rate in half

University of Florida Hospital nurses caring for a patient with COVID-19. Photo: Jesse S Jones/University of Florida

Over the past year, researchers from the University of Florida (UF) have published a series of studies that provide a clear and devastating prognosis for people who are hospitalised with severe COVID-19.

In July, they reported that people who had seemingly recovered from severe COVID-19 were likely to end up in hospital again with ongoing complications from the disease.