There is no treatment for covid, no working medication. Even mentioned Ramdesivir was discredited in wider tests with more statistical significance. All hospitals can do is try and prevent external infections while providing oxygen, but patient status worsening to the point of requiring ventilation is a death sentence no matter the color of your skin.

I wonder how much her size contributed to experience of discrimination, as it is well established that clinicians often have less empathy towards overweight individuals?

That is a really good question. I think that there are so many biases people have against each other that we rarely consider. Physicians are not immune from such psychological biases and that is very scary to think about.

That's an interesting point. It makes me wonder more generally how empathy from doctors and nurses affects patent outcome.