Penicillin was the first naturally occurring antibiotic drug discovered and used therapeutically. This was an amazing discovery, but was an experiment for Influenza.
Penicillin was the Miracle drug. Your body some how either got through life-threatening illnesses such as bacterial endocarditis, meningitis, pneumococcal pneumonia, gonorrhea and syphilis, or died. Most died.
I can't even imagine all of the people who got to live and not die. Of course more drugs have been discovered as bacteria has become resistant to antibiotics.
Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish researcher, is credited with the discovery of penicillin in 1928. At the time, Fleming was experimenting with the influenza virus in the Laboratory of the Inoculation Department at St. Mary’s Hospital in London.
Often described as a careless lab technician, Fleming returned from a two-week vacation to find that a mold had developed on an accidentally contaminated staphylococcus culture plate. Upon examination of the mold, he noticed that the culture prevented the growth of staphylococci.
Even in the early experimentation stages, penicillin had no effect against gram-negative organisms but was effective against gram-positive bacteria.
Published reports credit Fleming as saying: “One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.”
There are drugs that can help a person battle the symptoms of a Virus to get well and there are many "Over The Counter" drugs too. A common cold could be part of a Corona virus.
I think these medicines that can be used for Covid will help in the same way and should not be looked at as a lie. Just like there are 15 brands of Over the counter medicine we all choose what we think that helps us the best. Just think how many of the "Dr Cure All" Quacks disappeared! Makes you wonder if a Cure was found for a Virus what would happen to the over the counter drugs?
I do believe that sleep and rest is really needed to help any drug work to help you get better. There is too much battling going on about all this.
We will get through this!
Keep your Immunity strong.
Eat your vegetables
Linda