RE: Most viral respiratory illnesses, for most people will resolve within 7-10 days without treatment. With treatment, most viral respiratory viruses, for most people will resolve in 7-10 days
So, you’re saying the response to getting Covid-19 in most cases is to do nothing and let the disease just run its course?
For most people, that's exactly what happens. I have seen many Covid+ people come through the ER. If you are sick enough to qualify for admission, you get admitted and that decision was, at that time, made before your covid results were even back. If you weren't that sick, you were discharged home. I had to call these people up and give them their test results for a while. It took 2-3 days to get the results back then. The young ones were pretty well over it by the time their test results came back. The older one typically stated they were improving but they weren't over it. 2 or 3 people I advised to return to the ER because it sounded like they were not winning the battle. I saw that they did come in and they were admitted for 2-3 days and discharged home. During wave 2, we started sending people home with a home pulse oximeter so they could monitor their oxygen saturation at home.
Some people came in and they were seriously ill though. These are the people with an SPO2 of 50-60% and an elevated heart rate and respiratory rate, abnormal blood gasses, obvious changes in the lungs seen with a CT scan, altered mental status, evidence of coagulation problems, etc. I don't think there's any miracle cure that's going to turn that kind of person around. It's just going to be a long drawn out battle in the ICU, on a ventilator and likely in a rotoprone bed. We saved a lot of these people but they were definitely at deaths door knocking loudly.