Complex Event Analysis - Report

Key Focus

  • He added that the U.K. had enough supplies of the drug to deal with a potential second spike in hospital admissions.
    Read:Everything you need to know about the Oxford University vaccine and other efforts to bear coronavirus
    The trial's lead investigator Oxford University's Professor Peter Horby said when used to treat patients on ventilators with Covid-19, dexamethasone reduced deaths by about 35% and cut the risk of death by 20% in those who required oxygen
  • Horby said that if eight patients on ventilators were treated with the drug, one life would be saved, adding that the total cost of treating the eight people would be just .40 ($50).
    Speaking at the daily briefing, he added that the "60-odd"-year-old drug was very cheap, could be found on every pharmacy shelf in every hospital in the country and was the first drug to be shown to improve survival from Covid-19.
    The RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of Covid-19 Therapy) trial, led by a team from Oxford University, was launched in March to test six potential coronavirus treatments, including the low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone
  • In results released by researchers on Tuesday, the drug reduced deaths by a third for patients on ventilators and by a fifth in patients receiving oxygen.
    Based on those results, one death would be prevented for every eight patients on ventilators and one life would be saved for every 25 patients on oxygen, the researchers said.
    Vallance said: "This is a ground-breaking development in our fight against the disease, and the speed at which researchers have progressed finding an effective treatment is truly remarkable." During the daily briefing Vallance reiterated that the drug would not prevent people from catching coronavirus and was only shown to benefit those who develop respiratory problems as a result of Covid-19.
    in 'biggest breakthrough yet'
    Published: June 16, 2020 at 1:50 p.m.
  • and it costs just .5 ($6) per patient.
    A trial led by Oxford University found that the low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators, and by a fifth for those on oxygen, according to results published earlier on Tuesday.
    The treatment will now be used on the NHS as standard care for Covid-19 patients and the U.K.'s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said the drug could "immediately be used across the world" to save lives, at the government's daily briefing on Tuesday afternoon.
    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson described it as the "biggest breakthrough yet" in the global research effort in the fight against coronavirus, at the daily briefing
  • Momentum supporting factors

  • (covid-19, dexamethasone, drug)
  • (coronavirus, drug)
  • (coronavirus, dexamethasone, drug)
  • (coronavirus, oxford_university)
  • (dexamethasone, drug, oxford_university)
  • (drug, oxford_university)
  • (dexamethasone, hospital)
  • (dexamethasone, drug, hospital)
  • (drug, hospital)
  • (hospital, ventilators)
  • Challenge supporting factors

  • (coronavirus, dexamethasone)
  • (coronavirus, steroid)
  • (dexamethasone, steroid)
  • (dexamethasone, president_donald_trump)
  • (coronavirus, low-dose)
  • (dexamethasone, low-dose)
  • (dexamethasone, hydroxychloroquine)
  • Work-in-progress supporting factors

  • (covid-19, dexamethasone, drug)
  • (coronavirus, dexamethasone, drug)
  • (coronavirus, ventilators)
  • (dexamethasone, ventilators)
  • (dexamethasone, drug, steroid)
  • (dexamethasone, drug, ventilators)
  • (coronavirus, covid-19)
  • (covid-19, dexamethasone)
  • (covid-19, drug)
  • (dexamethasone, drug, oxford_university)
  • Complex Event Time Series Summary - REPORT


    Time PeriodChallengeMomentumWIP
    Report3.45 16.93 79.63

    High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

    High Level Abstraction (HLA)Report
    (1) (covid-19,dexamethasone,drug)100.00
    (2) (coronavirus,dexamethasone,drug)80.05
    (3) (dexamethasone,drug,oxford_university)36.89
    (4) (coronavirus,ventilators)31.09
    (5) (dexamethasone,ventilators)30.28
    (6) (dexamethasone,drug,steroid)29.93
    (7) (dexamethasone,drug,ventilators)29.47
    (8) (coronavirus,covid-19)29.35
    (9) (covid-19,dexamethasone)28.31
    (10) (covid-19,drug)28.07
    (11) (coronavirus,drug)24.71
    (12) (coronavirus,dexamethasone)24.01
    (13) (covid-19,ventilators)22.51
    (14) (dexamethasone,drug,low-dose)19.49
    (15) (coronavirus,vallance)17.52
    (16) (coronavirus,steroid)17.52
    (17) (dexamethasone,vallance)17.40
    (18) (dexamethasone,steroid)17.29
    (19) (dexamethasone,drug,vallance)16.71
    (20) (drug,vallance)16.36
    (21) (vallance,ventilators)16.24
    (22) (coronavirus,oxford_university)15.89
    (23) (dexamethasone,drug,hospital)15.31
    (24) (drug,steroid)14.04
    (25) (steroid,ventilators)13.92
    (26) (dexamethasone,oxford_university)13.69
    (27) (drug,oxford_university)12.76
    (28) (dexamethasone,low-dose)11.48
    (29) (oxford_university,ventilators)10.67
    (30) (drug,low-dose)10.32
    (31) (low-dose,ventilators)8.47
    (32) (dexamethasone,hospital)8.35
    (33) (drug,hospital)6.38
    (34) (hospital,ventilators)6.26
    (35) (dexamethasone,ground-breaking)6.15
    (36) (dexamethasone,drug,ground-breaking)6.03
    (37) (drug,ground-breaking)5.10
    (38) (ground-breaking,ventilators)4.99
    (39) (covid-19_therapy,drug)4.87
    (40) (covid-19_therapy,dexamethasone,drug)4.76
    (41) (covid-19_therapy,ventilators)3.83
    (42) (cost,drug)3.71
    (43) (cost,dexamethasone,drug)3.60
    (44) (coronavirus,low-dose)2.90
    (45) (cost,ventilators)2.67
    (46) (dexamethasone,president_donald_trump)1.16
    (47) (dexamethasone,hydroxychloroquine)0.81
    (48) (coronavirus,sir_patrick_vallance)0.58
    (49) (coronavirus,risk)0.58
    (50) (coronavirus,scientists)0.46
    (51) (coronavirus,prime_minister_boris_johnson)0.12

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    Supporting narratives:

    • momentum (Read more)
      • He added that the U.K. had enough supplies of the drug to deal with a potential second spike in hospital admissions.
        Read:Everything you need to know about the Oxford University vaccine and other efforts to bear coronavirus
        The trial's lead investigator Oxford University's Professor Peter Horby said when used to treat patients on ventilators with Covid-19, dexamethasone reduced deaths by about 35% and cut the risk of death by 20% in those who required oxygen
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (drug,oxford_university)
        • (coronavirus,drug)
        • (coronavirus,oxford_university)
        • (covid-19,dexamethasone,drug)
        • (drug,hospital)
        • (dexamethasone,hospital)
        • (coronavirus,dexamethasone,drug)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,hospital)
        • (hospital,ventilators)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,oxford_university)
        • Inferred entity relationships (14)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,oxford_university) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,dexamethasone) [inferred]
        • (drug,hospital) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,drug,hong_kong) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,low-dose) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ground-breaking) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,dexamethasone) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,drug,hong_kong,kaletra) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,hospital) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,drug,kaletra) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ventilators) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,vallance) [inferred]
        • (drug,oxford_university) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,steroid) [inferred]

    • momentum (Read more)
      • He added that the U.K. had enough supplies of the drug to deal with a potential second spike in hospital admissions.
        Read:Everything you need to know about the Oxford University vaccine and other efforts to bear coronavirus
        The trial's lead investigator Oxford University's Professor Peter Horby said when used to treat patients on ventilators with Covid-19, dexamethasone reduced deaths by about 35% and cut the risk of death by 20% in those who required oxygen.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (coronavirus,risk)

    • challenge (Read more)
      • Horby said that if eight patients on ventilators were treated with the drug, one life would be saved, adding that the total cost of treating the eight people would be just .40 ($50).
        Speaking at the daily briefing, he added that the "60-odd"-year-old drug was very cheap, could be found on every pharmacy shelf in every hospital in the country and was the first drug to be shown to improve survival from Covid-19.
        The RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of Covid-19 Therapy) trial, led by a team from Oxford University, was launched in March to test six potential coronavirus treatments, including the low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone. Earlier this month the trial concluded that hydroxychloroquine - which President Donald Trump claimed he was taking - provided no clinical benefit
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (dexamethasone,steroid)
        • (dexamethasone,hydroxychloroquine)
        • (coronavirus,low-dose)
        • (dexamethasone,low-dose)
        • (coronavirus,dexamethasone)
        • (coronavirus,steroid)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (coronavirus,dexamethasone,drug) [inferred]

    • challenge (Read more)
      • Horby said that if eight patients on ventilators were treated with the drug, one life would be saved, adding that the total cost of treating the eight people would be just .40 ($50).
        Speaking at the daily briefing, he added that the "60-odd"-year-old drug was very cheap, could be found on every pharmacy shelf in every hospital in the country and was the first drug to be shown to improve survival from Covid-19.
        The RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of Covid-19 Therapy) trial, led by a team from Oxford University, was launched in March to test six potential coronavirus treatments, including the low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone. Earlier this month the trial concluded that hydroxychloroquine - which President Donald Trump claimed he was taking - provided no clinical benefit.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (dexamethasone,president_donald_trump)

    • WIP (Read more)
      • and it costs just .5 ($6) per patient.
        A trial led by Oxford University found that the low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators, and by a fifth for those on oxygen, according to results published earlier on Tuesday.
        The treatment will now be used on the NHS as standard care for Covid-19 patients and the U.K.'s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said the drug could "immediately be used across the world" to save lives, at the government's daily briefing on Tuesday afternoon.
        British Prime Minister Boris Johnson described it as the "biggest breakthrough yet" in the global research effort in the fight against coronavirus, at the daily briefing
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (dexamethasone,low-dose)
        • (dexamethasone,ventilators)
        • (drug,steroid)
        • (covid-19,dexamethasone)
        • (steroid,ventilators)
        • (coronavirus,ventilators)
        • (coronavirus,prime_minister_boris_johnson)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,oxford_university)
        • (covid-19,ventilators)
        • (coronavirus,covid-19)
        • (covid-19,drug)
        • (dexamethasone,oxford_university)
        • (coronavirus,sir_patrick_vallance)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,low-dose)
        • (covid-19,dexamethasone,drug)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ventilators)
        • (dexamethasone,steroid)
        • (low-dose,ventilators)
        • (coronavirus,risk)
        • (coronavirus,steroid)
        • (oxford_university,ventilators)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,steroid)
        • Inferred entity relationships (31)
        • (coronavirus,covid-19,vaccine) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,drug,hong_kong,university) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,oxford_university) [inferred]
        • (drug,low-dose) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,covid-19,moderna) [inferred]
        • (drug,steroid) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,covid-19,kaletra) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,drug,university) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,covid-19,drug,hong_kong) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,drug,hong_kong,suppressed) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,drug,hong_kong,virus) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,drug,hong_kong,kaletra) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,dexamethasone,drug) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,drug,kaletra,university) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ventilators) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,vallance) [inferred]
        • (drug,oxford_university) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,drug,suppressed) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,drug,kaletra,suppressed) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,covid-19,drug) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,drug,kaletra,virus) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,covid-19,hong_kong) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,covid-19,drug,kaletra) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,low-dose) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ground-breaking) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,drug,virus) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,dexamethasone) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,hospital) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,drug,hong_kong,sars-cov-2) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,steroid) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,covid-19,hong_kong,kaletra) [inferred]

    • WIP (Read more)
      • Horby said that if eight patients on ventilators were treated with the drug, one life would be saved, adding that the total cost of treating the eight people would be just .40 ($50).
        Speaking at the daily briefing, he added that the "60-odd"-year-old drug was very cheap, could be found on every pharmacy shelf in every hospital in the country and was the first drug to be shown to improve survival from Covid-19.
        The RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of Covid-19 Therapy) trial, led by a team from Oxford University, was launched in March to test six potential coronavirus treatments, including the low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (covid-19_therapy,drug)
        • (covid-19_therapy,dexamethasone,drug)
        • (cost,ventilators)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,hospital)
        • (covid-19_therapy,ventilators)
        • (cost,drug)
        • (cost,dexamethasone,drug)
        • (covid-19,dexamethasone,drug)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,oxford_university)
        • Inferred entity relationships (10)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,low-dose) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ground-breaking) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,dexamethasone) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,oxford_university) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,hospital) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ventilators) [inferred]
        • (drug,hospital) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,vallance) [inferred]
        • (drug,oxford_university) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,steroid) [inferred]

    • WIP (Read more)
      • In results released by researchers on Tuesday, the drug reduced deaths by a third for patients on ventilators and by a fifth in patients receiving oxygen.
        Based on those results, one death would be prevented for every eight patients on ventilators and one life would be saved for every 25 patients on oxygen, the researchers said.
        Vallance said: "This is a ground-breaking development in our fight against the disease, and the speed at which researchers have progressed finding an effective treatment is truly remarkable." During the daily briefing Vallance reiterated that the drug would not prevent people from catching coronavirus and was only shown to benefit those who develop respiratory problems as a result of Covid-19.
        in 'biggest breakthrough yet'
        Published: June 16, 2020 at 1:50 p.m.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (covid-19,dexamethasone,drug)
        • Inferred entity relationships (8)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,low-dose) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ground-breaking) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ventilators) [inferred]
        • (covid-19,dexamethasone) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,oxford_university) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,vallance) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,steroid) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,hospital) [inferred]

    • WIP (Read more)
      • and it costs just .5 ($6) per patient.
        A trial led by Oxford University found that the low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators, and by a fifth for those on oxygen, according to results published earlier on Tuesday.
        The treatment will now be used on the NHS as standard care for Covid-19 patients and the U.K.'s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said the drug could "immediately be used across the world" to save lives, at the government's daily briefing on Tuesday afternoon.
        British Prime Minister Boris Johnson described it as the "biggest breakthrough yet" in the global research effort in the fight against coronavirus, at the daily briefing.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (coronavirus,dexamethasone,drug)
        • (coronavirus,dexamethasone)
        • Inferred entity relationships (9)
        • (coronavirus,dexamethasone) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,low-dose) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ground-breaking) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,dexamethasone,drug) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ventilators) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,oxford_university) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,vallance) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,steroid) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,hospital) [inferred]

    • WIP (Read more)
      • Horby said that if eight patients on ventilators were treated with the drug, one life would be saved, adding that the total cost of treating the eight people would be just .40 ($50).
        Speaking at the daily briefing, he added that the "60-odd"-year-old drug was very cheap, could be found on every pharmacy shelf in every hospital in the country and was the first drug to be shown to improve survival from Covid-19.
        The RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of Covid-19 Therapy) trial, led by a team from Oxford University, was launched in March to test six potential coronavirus treatments, including the low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone.
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (coronavirus,dexamethasone,drug)
        • (drug,low-dose)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,low-dose)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,steroid)
        • Inferred entity relationships (10)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,low-dose) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ground-breaking) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,oxford_university) [inferred]
        • (drug,low-dose) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,hospital) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,dexamethasone) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ventilators) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,vallance) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,steroid) [inferred]
        • (drug,steroid) [inferred]

    • WIP (Read more)
      • In results released by researchers on Tuesday, the drug reduced deaths by a third for patients on ventilators and by a fifth in patients receiving oxygen.
        Based on those results, one death would be prevented for every eight patients on ventilators and one life would be saved for every 25 patients on oxygen, the researchers said.
        Vallance said: "This is a ground-breaking development in our fight against the disease, and the speed at which researchers have progressed finding an effective treatment is truly remarkable." During the daily briefing Vallance reiterated that the drug would not prevent people from catching coronavirus and was only shown to benefit those who develop respiratory problems as a result of Covid-19.
        in 'biggest breakthrough yet'
        Published: June 16, 2020 at 1:50 p.m
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (drug,ground-breaking)
        • (coronavirus,dexamethasone,drug)
        • (coronavirus,ventilators)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ground-breaking)
        • (vallance,ventilators)
        • (coronavirus,vallance)
        • (ground-breaking,ventilators)
        • (dexamethasone,vallance)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,vallance)
        • (dexamethasone,ground-breaking)
        • (drug,vallance)
        • Inferred entity relationships (10)
        • (dexamethasone,drug,low-dose) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ground-breaking) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,oxford_university) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,hospital) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,dexamethasone) [inferred]
        • (drug,vallance) [inferred]
        • (drug,ground-breaking) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,ventilators) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,vallance) [inferred]
        • (dexamethasone,drug,steroid) [inferred]

    • WIP (Read more)
      • the first coronavirus drug that scientists says has been shown to save lives. and it costs just .5 ($6) per patient.
        A trial led by Oxford University found that the low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators, and by a fifth for those on oxygen, according to results published earlier on Tuesday.
        The treatment will now be used on the NHS as standard care for Covid-19 patients and the U.K.'s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said the drug could "immediately be used across the world" to save lives, at the government's daily briefing on Tuesday afternoon.
        British Prime Minister Boris Johnson described it as the "biggest breakthrough yet" in the global research effort in the fight against coronavirus, at the daily briefing
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (coronavirus,low-dose)
        • (drug,oxford_university)
        • (drug,low-dose)
        • (coronavirus,drug)
        • (coronavirus,oxford_university)
        • Inferred entity relationships (3)
        • (coronavirus,drug,hong_kong) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,drug,hong_kong,kaletra) [inferred]
        • (coronavirus,drug,kaletra) [inferred]

    • WIP (Read more)
      • ET
        By Callum Keown
        Results of a trial announced today have shown that Dexamethasone, a cheap and widely used steroid drug reduced death rates by around a third in the most severely ill COVID-19 patients GETTY IMAGES
        The U.K. government has approved the use of dexamethasone. the first coronavirus drug that scientists says has been shown to save lives. and it costs just .5 ($6) per patient.
        A trial led by Oxford University found that the low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators, and by a fifth for those on oxygen, according to results published earlier on Tuesday.
        The treatment will now be used on the NHS as standard care for Covid-19 patients and the U.K.'s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said the drug could "immediately be used across the world" to save lives, at the government's daily briefing on Tuesday afternoon.
        British Prime Minister Boris Johnson described it as the "biggest breakthrough yet" in the global research effort in the fight against coronavirus, at the daily briefing
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (coronavirus,scientists)

    Target rule match count: 73.0 Challenge: 0.02 Momentum: 0.08 WIP: 0.40