I am not a doctor but if it is indeed anti-inflammatory and causes apoptosis it sounds more likely to be harmful than to be helpful. I suspect apoptosis (or rat

I am not a doctor but if it is indeed anti-inflammatory and causes apoptosis it sounds more likely to be harmful than to be helpful. I suspect apoptosis (or rather what happens is that cells get hijacked by the virus and then the immune systems kills the hijacked cells) is what causes most of the lung damage and inflammation is an important part of the response from the immune system so I would not mess with that more than necessary.