Have these patients been getting MCAs?
Ok, what is a MCA? Would they know if they were given one?
mabs?
here are the treatment guidelines.
https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/management/clinical-management/hospitalized-adults—therapeutic-management/
If the patient was on remdisiver and steroids only, his lungs were still working ok. Once lungs fail and o2 is required, patients are moved on to baricitnab (against cytokine storm - nabs are produced by B cells and block interaction between Ace receptors and spikes), tocilizumab, (anti-inflamatory manmade monoclonal) or tofacitnib (major anti-inflamatory aganst cytokine and interferon storms). These treatments are aimed at healing damage.
On the average, by 20 days, a severely ill person has no replicating virus left (i.e., is no longer ‘contageous’) and what IS left is the damage caused over that time period. If there’s little to no replicating virus left at 20 days, than an antiviral given at that time will have zero measurable effect - there’s nothing left to anti-
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/duration-isolation.html