Originally Posted by Excargodog

One needn’t get so partisan about a response to this. Ultimately the science either WILL or WILL NOT hold up.

and there is at least some theoretical support for the idea. Early on, due to theoretical concerns over the effect of glucocorticoids in suppressing the immune response, the medical community debated taking asthmatics many of whom are on regular maintenance inhaled glucocorticoids off those medications. The initial quick look was that - no, those on inhaled corticosteroids did NOT seem to be at particularly higher risk despite their underlying comorbidity AND the use of the inhaled steroids - but rather under somewhat lower risk.




https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7236828/

other scientific articles also indicate that the possible therapeutic use of inhaled corticosteroids is certainly in the medical mainstream:



https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7270536/


The issue is that both these articles were published about six weeks ago and it takes time for ideas to percolate and prospective studies to be set up and more time still for the data to accumulate to get the statistical power to sort out fact from fiction.

I personally doubt this is going to be any ‘silver bullet’ but it certainly does have the potential to be helpful IF THE STUDIES DEMONSTRATE THAT. But that’s going to take time to sort out.

But to dismiss this out of hand is every bit as ‘cultish’ as to accept it unquestioningly. We all have ideas we cling to (The Miata is NOT a sports car and the Packers are my favorite NFL team) but rooting for or against a scientific theory because of the assumed political beliefs of those promulgating it is as crazy as it gets.