Tue. 06/16 - The 411 on Dexamethasone: A New COVID-19 Treatment?

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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A new promising treatment for COVID-19. Good news for LGBTQ+ Americans. Why people are more honest when they’re typing on their smartphones versus on their computers. The one man who created the stuffed crust pizza, the McGriddle, the Quizno’s Steakhouse Beef Dip, the Dollar Menu, and more. And a Taiwanese airport trying to make a tourist attraction out of all the worst parts of traveling. Sponsor: FitBod, Get one month free at Fitbod.me/goodnews Links: Scientists hail dexamethasone as 'major breakthrough' in treating COVID-19 (Reuters) A Half-Century On, an Unexpected Milestone for L.G.B.T.Q. Rights (NY Times) The Stonewall Reader (New York Public Library) The Da Vinci of Fast-Food: The One Guy Behind a Huge Number of Staple Fast-Food Items Everyone Loves (Today I Found Out) Why People Are More Honest When Writing on Their Smartphones (Wall Street Journal) Taiwan airport offers 'pretend to go abroad' airport tours amid Covid-19 pandemic (CNN) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome to the good news ride home for Tuesday, June 16th, 2020.
0:41.1	Happy Captain Picard Day.
0:43.7	I'm Jackson Bird.
0:44.8	Today, a new, very promising treatment for COVID-19.
0:49.2	Good news for LGBTQ plus Americans.
0:53.5	Why people are more honest when they're typing on their
0:56.8	smartphones versus their computers? The one man who created the stuffed crust pizza,
1:04.2	the McGrittle, the Quizno's Steakhouse Beef Dip, the dollar menu, and more. And a Taiwanese airport trying to make a tourist attraction
1:13.6	out of all the worst parts of traveling. Here is your daily dose of good news.
1:20.6	The world got some good news this morning in the hunt for an effective COVID-19 treatment, or as cautiously good as
1:29.9	any COVID-19 treatment news is. A new trial has shown that dexamethazone, a steroid used for
1:37.0	various inflammatory diseases, is effective in treating severe cases of COVID-19, reducing
1:43.9	death rates around a third of those most ill.
1:47.5	Quoting Reuters, the recovery trial compared outcomes of around 2,100 patients who were randomly assigned to get the steroid,
1:55.4	with those of around 4,300 patients who did not get it.
1:59.1	The results suggest that one death would be prevented by treatment with dexamethosone
2:04.0	among every eight ventilated COVID-19 patients, Landry said, and one death would be prevented
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