This drug is not a cure for Covid-19. It looks like the drug reduces inflammation, which reduces symptoms. When the symptoms are reduced, the patient’s body has more energy to fight the virus.
I had wondered why people with asthma did not have extremely serious Covid-19 disease. It makes sense, that their anti-inflammatory inhalers were decreasing their symptoms.
Could you find exact dosage used in this study?
The irony here isn’t that steroids have been proving useful in the inflammatory state of the CCP virus. That much was sufficiently obvious that some family physicians were reaching for them very early on in the pandemic.
In the case of Budesonide, a doctor in Midland, Texas, was mocked, shamed, and cancelled back in April for daring to urge his colleagues to consider prescribing it early in the course of the disease, citing his own positive results in his practice.
Somehow, what had been standard in medicine for, well, forever (early treatment, reliance on clinical judgement, use of low-risk, known safe drugs) suddenly became recklessly irresponsible.
The only question left is this: cui bono?
I’ve used budesonide & formoterol since last spring. It replaced the Advair disc I had previously been using. I was short of breath and had a few other odd symptoms for a couple of months early last year. It felt different than asthma and lasted for most of January and February. In retrospect I’ve wondered if I had an early, mild case. But probably not, I had a low grade temperature and no cough.