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Originally Posted by Bay Kid
What is used to help hospital patients with the flu? Still more people die and are hospitalized for the flu.
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Patients with influenza are given supportive therapy and treated for any problems which are treatable.. sounds foolish. There are drugs such as Tamiflu which are effective against the influenza virus itself, but they only seem to be helpful if given within a couple days of
onset of symptoms. If you've been flu sick for 5 days then suddenly get worse, those medications have not been shown to help. Influenza often leads to secondary bacterial pneumonia. There are regular antibiotics which can be used to treat the bacterial secondary infection.
Covid seems to damage, often fatally damage, the lungs without any contribution from secondary bacterial pneumonia. Lessons learned from use of antiviral and antibacterial medications in treating influenza have not helped in treatment of Covid. Covid is not flu.