@Dutchess_III I know that. That doesn’t change that there could be bacteria laying around in some people making things worse, or a secondary infection. People get flu and then secondary to that a bacterial infection. It isn’t unheard of. It also is not unheard of for the medical establishment to believe some bacterias are normal flora, and then later find out they are pathogenic, or especially in some people cause symptoms while not in others. Possibly, the virus causes a weakened immune system, or provides an environment, and people who have these bacterias in smaller numbers always laying around suddenly have them growing into infections. Anything is possible right now. The only way to know is to study it. If doctors and researchers are not trying to even culture these things, or try them even without culture, we won’t know. I’m not saying throw any old medicine at it, I am talking about medicines that are currently used for pneumonia. Zithromax has been tried, and we still don’t know if it is helping for sure or not.
Believe me, I have suffered with infections for YEARS, and it took until a doctor tried the right combination of antibiotics for me to get better. Most doctors said I did not have an infection. Some believed I definitely did have an infection, but the antibiotics did nothing. I have some bacterias present that only test positive when taken by a very specific lab, and it does not grow when sent to a typical commercial lab. Probably, a lot of people walk around with those bacterias and have no symptoms, like how some people have the ulcer bacteria and have no symptoms and some get bad ulcers.
I have been through a ton regarding bacterial infection, and in no way am I saying I am some sort of expert, but I do believe they are missed constantly and misdiagnosed. It very well might be bacteria has nothing to do with COVID severe illness, but I am curious about it.
It does appear that even people with mild COVID19 illness have injury (although might be temporary) to the lungs, and likely that is all about the virus and not a bacteria, but again, I am just curious about it, since it is not far fetched that a bacteria can come into play with pneumonia that originated with a virus.
Plus, maybe there is a mechanism we just don’t understand. Minocycline and Doxicycline have been used in some rheumatic conditions with mixed results, and the theory is they decrease inflammation, but I prefer to believe it is killing an unknown infection. It’s just my hypothesis, it could be wrong of course.