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Coronavirus fatality rate down 30% since April due to improved treatment: Study
Covid-19 infection will prove fatal has dropped by nearly a third since April due to improved treatment.In America, coronavirus now kills about 0.6% of people infected with the deadly virus, compared with around 0.9% early in the pandemic, IHME Director Dr Christopher Murray told news agency Reuters.He said statistics reflect that doctors have figured out better ways to care for patients, including the use of blood thinners and oxygen support. Effective treatments, such as the generic steroid dexamethasone, have also been identified.Experts have struggled to accurately measure a crucial metric in the pandemic: the fatality rate, or percentage of people infected with the pathogen who are likely to die.