In looking for ways to combat covid, should it come my way, I came across this interesting article. Ruslan Madzhitoz, a professor of immunobiology at Yale has found that food intake affects the immune system for bacterial infections differently than viral infection. It would appear that eating regular, balanced meals containing carbohydrates, is good for the immune system's response to a virus, even if one has lost their appetite. In an experiment, mice who had a virus and were force fed, all survived. Those who were not fed died. The opposite, however, was true for bacterial infections. In further experiments is turned out to be carbohydrate intake or exclusion that was the determining factor. Whereas glucose was “required for survival in models of viral inflammation, it was lethal in models of bacterial inflammation.” "...in cases of infectious disease, the rule that Medzhitov has discovered seems to have merit. As he first put it, “Starve a bacterial infection and stuff a viral infection." "Feed a Cold, Don't Starve it." https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/glucose-inflammation/498965/