Mike .... THANK YOU for taking the time and doing all the typing to provide us with this seminal information. You have done the most complete job of describing the "workings" of the virus, the body and the drugs & procedures, good and bad, of any I've yet run across. But what you say is consistent with much of what I've "learned" elsewhere, so it is good conformational info!
I do hope that this does all turn out to be the correct path, and that we learn a whole lot about many potentially pandemic disease vectors, so that the whole world is not held hostage like this again.