Regarding EPA effects on SI...Most likely the anti SI levels are determined by the EPA/AA ratios...Probably aim for 1/1 ratio...That could probably be obtained in a week or two...
EPA would not stop the contagion. Rather it would moderate the effects of the the virus...and prevent deaths or CVD and pulmonary events...
I doubt that Vascepa alone will have sufficient anti-inflammatory effect to treat the flu. I have mitochondrial dysfunction from flouroquinolones and started getting an inflammatory sinus and cardiac response a couple months after starting the V. I have added glucosamine and NAC and it keeps me out of the ER.