Dexamethasone trial saved my life, says ‘lucky’ Covid-19 patient

Katherine Millbank was in intensive care when she was given the common steroid.

A woman in the UK who feared she would die with coronavirus was reunited with her husband on her 55th birthday after being placed on a trial involving a widely used steroid hailed as a Covid-19 treatment breakthrough.

Katherine Millbank, 55, from Buckinghamshire, was rushed into intensive care at Stoke Mandeville Hospital on March 26, and was placed in an induced coma and put on a ventilator.