COVID-19: First line of defence or last resort?

Life-saving steroids were used indiscriminately during the pandemic's second wave, but they can have lethal side effects. A DTE series on steroid misuse witnessed across the country
COVID-19: First line of defence or last resort?
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Steroids are essential in fighting infectious diseases. Used recklessly, they can cause life-threatening side effects like mucormycosis, as seen in the pandemic’s second wave
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Administering of steroids is a risk-management exercise requiring close monitoring of patients, which doctors ignored during the pandemic to save lives or to keep people out of hospitals
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Poor dissemination and discrepancies in Union and state governments’ versions have made doctors lose faith in COVID-19 treatment protocol, leading to steroid misuse across the country
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