Of course, what made Dexamethasone such a breakthrough wasn't really the drug itself; I think there's some evidence now that other steroids might actually work

Of course, what made Dexamethasone such a breakthrough wasn't really the drug itself; I think there's some evidence now that other steroids might actually work better. The big breakthrough was that some UK researchers managed to use the fact that the country got hit hard early on in the pandemic to immediately run a bunch of large randomized controlled trials on all the most promising throw-things-at-the-wall treatments to get evidence on which actually worked as soon as possible.