So one of the things it does is it impacts the circulatory system. Covid has significant impact on the blood and this fact seems to account for a lot of things that went badly sideways in ways that weren't readily understood. For example, ventilators were getting especially poor results, from which I infer that the respiratory element of the infection isn't the primary way it kills most people.
Steroids generally support immune function and are often prescribed alongside antibiotics for serious infections. They are hard on the body and getting off steroids is the hardest withdrawal experience I ever had out of the dozen or more medications I eventually got off of. I have been told by other people that, yup, getting off steroids is typically a real bitch (though there are things that can be done to mitigate it, which is how I eventually successfully got off of them).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budesonide#Pharmacology
So one of the things it does is it impacts the circulatory system. Covid has significant impact on the blood and this fact seems to account for a lot of things that went badly sideways in ways that weren't readily understood. For example, ventilators were getting especially poor results, from which I infer that the respiratory element of the infection isn't the primary way it kills most people.
Steroids generally support immune function and are often prescribed alongside antibiotics for serious infections. They are hard on the body and getting off steroids is the hardest withdrawal experience I ever had out of the dozen or more medications I eventually got off of. I have been told by other people that, yup, getting off steroids is typically a real bitch (though there are things that can be done to mitigate it, which is how I eventually successfully got off of them).