Antibiotics are pretty much useless against a virus.
Vaccination was the way to go but you can’t use it against unknown.
Real antiviral drugs were first developed to counter AIDS and yet to prove to be really effective.
Hiv drugs have been curing these people
Antibiotics can be effective against secondary infections, i.e., when someone’s lungs get junked up with mucus due to viral infection, a secondary bacterial infection often develops. Antibiotics can and do treat those secondary bacterial infections. I