Umm, if cytokine storm wasn't what was putting people at risk, how did dexamethasone have such a powerful affect keeping people alive. As a strong steroid, it

Umm, if cytokine storm wasn't what was putting people at risk, how did dexamethasone have such a powerful affect keeping people alive. As a strong steroid, it reduced inflammation and throttled back the immune response. Yeah, that would have enabled secondary infections a bit more room to grow, but the problem is that dosed people did better than worse.