Yes, I knew about that. Made a thread
about it here.
What puzzles me is the stuff about 24 hours. If you see the graph of how the symptoms improve below. As you can see, the
big symptom improvement comes after around 6 weeks.
If there are any improvement after only 24 hours, than I suspect it might be some of the other agents doing something (oral cetirizin 10 mg, dexamethason 8 mg and paracetamol 1 g - plus rituximab 2 mg/ml).
Rituximab could well be described as the chemotherapy which aint chemotherapy. It kills immune cells, but it does so because Rituximab is a antibody binding to the antigen found on the outside of CD20 cells, leading to apoptosis of B-cells. It's really a gentle drug compared to the ones in that class. They use it for moderate to severe arthritis (not that that's all happy days, but it's not lethal).
About the virus being activated in some rare cases, I think Daffodil posted some novel research about how that
may be stopped, although it's still avant garde science. It's in the Rituximab thread above.
I think Cort did a brilliant job interviewing the scientists. Just thought I'd add that.