Reply to a post about The evidence is in. WHO says corticosteroids really do save lives of people critically ill with COVID-19, finding that they help treat severe cases.
I’m surprised that the article doesn’t say more about the immunosuppressant effect that corticosteroids have.
Some of the articles I was looking at last week (when I was prescribed a course of prednisone for an unrelated condition) were looking at whether steroids might make mild cases worse by allowing the virus to make more progress.
If that holds up, then it’s *definitely* important to save them for severe cases where the anti-inflammatory effect makes a bigger difference!