“…Due to the pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), thousands of scientific studies, ( 1 , 2 ) as well as diverse treatment protocols, ( 3 , 4 ) have been reported in the literature. So far, in the absence of vaccines against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), it has been a routine to care for severe COVID-19 patients at intensive care units, who are on invasive mechanical ventilation for several days; on average, during three weeks.…”