Whatever caution I might have felt about the Covid vaccines, it is as nothing to the scepticism I have over home pill to cure Covid that seems to be being rushed out:
UK in drive to develop drugs to take at home to ‘stop Covid in its tracks’
Ministers announce taskforce to ‘supercharge’ search for antiviral treatments to roll out as soon as autumn
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/20/uk-in-drive-to-develop-drugs-to-take-at-home-to-stop-covid-in-its-tracks
I understand that budesonide is not new - and is extremely widely used already. But new substances are another ballpark.
Were I female, I'd be even more wary. After all, by far the majority of drug testing is done on males. So female-specific issues often do not get observed until it is out in the field.