[FreedomForce]

Would any of the doctors or other knowledgable people here care to comment on this?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jmv.25839

It’s just one patient who the authors treated with Erythropoietin (and a lot of other things) but they attribute recovery to the Erythropoietin. I’m not sure how they determine that it was the EPO. There’s almost nothing (nothing other than this one paper as far as i can tell) on the web about using EPO to treat COVID-19. Is that because it’s a far-fetched treatment that no one takes seriously?

[LilFarmer]

Looks like the patient was also given 1) Hydroxychloroquine Tab 400 mg stat 2) Oseltamivir Cap 75 mg twice daily for 5 days and 3) Lopinavir /Ritonavir Tab 400/100 mg twice daily for 5 days .

I wonder what made them think it was this drug and not the others that helped?

[Myrddin]

Not an MD. Reading the treatment, the packed RBC and hydroxychloroquine replaced RBCs with COVID-19 damaged hemoglobin and protected the replacement cells. The lymphocytes were very low compared to neutrophils. In other articles, when the neutrophil / lympocyte ratio hits 20:1, the patient is in serious trouble. Overall, a good recovery. Not certain exactly how the rhEPO contributed.