Dr. David Fajgenbaum

It was the only drug, Latif, that was recommended against when the pandemic started.

It was whatever you do, don't give people a corticosteroid.

Corticosteroids weaken your immune system.

Don't take

Dexamethasone.

Literally, there was no recommendation for what to take.

There was only a recommendation for what not to take.

Well, some amazing pioneering doctor in the UK still decided to do the trial of dexamethasone, and it worked.

It reduced mortality by 35%.

But the prevailing medical system believed that it would actually be harmful.

So we didn't know what to do.

We just don't do dexamethasone.

Turns out dexamethasone actually reduces risk of death by 35%.

So I'm so glad that someone asked the question, are we sure dexamethasone shouldn't be used?

So I love that.

I'm glad that Dex saved millions of lives.

And I'm glad that there was sort of one doctor who was willing to go against everyone else.

And so I think that the whole point of this is to find dexamethasones, not ivermectins.

If there's a drug that someone thinks might work for a disease and it's snake oil and it's not working, we want to study it.

We want to prove that it doesn't work.