# Fauci’s Deadly Blind Spot: Steroids Worked

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Podcast: [Rand Radio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/rand-radio-7193419)
Published: 2026-03-25T11:27:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.randpaulreview.com/p/faucis-deadly-blind-spot-steroids
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## Resource

Senator Rand Paul just slammed the last nail in the coffin of the low-cost solution that could have possibly saved thousands of Americans. The slow-burning anger that rises within you whenever you add another piece of the COVID puzzle together and you begin to realize just how badly they messed with you. Senator Rand Paul recently recapped his first attempt (early, urgent) to get Anthony Fauci to consider using High-Dose Intravenous Steroids for those patients who were seriously ill (severe inflammation/crashing lungs). Steroids had proven effective against similar storms in other illnesses. Senator Paul explained this clearly; Dr. Fauci dismissed it flatly, “No.” Then Dr. Fauci went back to touting Remdesivir as the golden ticket. A drug that barely improved survival rates for the patients, and at an enormous cost to the patients’ kidneys, and their bank accounts. The data did not need permission. The RECOVERY trial provided some irrefutable numbers that nobody could spin: Dexamethasone reduced death rates in ventilated patients by approximately 1/3. From approximately 41% down to 29%. That is not statistics; that is people breathing again, leaving hospitals, returning to their children. Rather than jump onto this life-saving rope, the NIH (with Dr. Fauci leading the charge) continued to push Remdesivir as the de facto standard in-patient treatment. Why? What justification exists for ignoring the obvious when lives are at stake? Consider the timeline. Paul suggested the use of steroids in the Spring of 2020. The RECOVERY trial reported the results of the study in June. Thousands of people had already lost their lives due to treatments that ignored the obvious. The FDA granted Emergency Approval to Remdesivir, established it as the standard in-patient treatment, and ge…

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