The new coronavirus pneumonia is a new challenge for both Western and Chinese medicine, and there is no clear evidence to support that a particular drug works against the new coronavirus. For example, Chinese medicine’s Banlangen cold and flu preparation does not have a clear effect on the novel coronavirus, and Western medicine such as the antiviral drug oseltamivir has no effect on the novel coronavirus. It is currently believed that only vaccines will have an effect on the new coronavirus in the future. People may have a misunderstanding about antibiotics for pneumonia. The pneumonia often mentioned by the people is mainly the bacterial infection pneumonia. For bacterial infection, human beings have various means to treat bacterial infection at present, and the most commonly used means is antibiotics. Antibiotics can treat pneumonia, bacteria, because bacteria and viruses are not the same, bacteria have a cell wall, the current antibiotics are mainly aimed at the cell wall, to prevent the formation of the cell wall, if the bacterial cell wall can not be formed, the bacteria are naturally inactivated. But the virus does not have a cell wall, and human cells, only the membrane, there is RNA inside, antibiotics have no effect on the target, so antibiotics have no effect on the virus. Source: Dr. Yurai