Ryan, the Irish head of the WHO/Chicom outfit says, "do not use Dexamethasone except on critically ill patients. It can suppress the immune system."
Someone who is already critically involved has bigger problems than their immune system- they are at imminent risk of drowning in fluid flooding out of the alveoli.
This was a novel virus and the smart guys' first best guess turned out wrong. It isn't like other respiratory diseases, in fact it isn;t exactly even one in the advanced stages. Learning how to manage Covid patients under ventilation has probably cut the mortality rate far more than anything else. In the early stages they were possibly doing more harm than good.
