In the context of the pandemic caused by the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, due to the lack of population immunity and vaccines, strict epidemic measures are the only way to slow the spread of infection, but in the case of spread of COVID-19 in the absence of effective ethiotropic therapy – an adequate, full-fledged response of the immune system. Analysis of scientific data shows that the outcome of COVID-19 depends on the activity of non-specific immune response in the infectious-inflammatory process. It is assumed that with the disclosure of the immunopathogenesis of the disease, the tactics of treating patients, especially old patients with physiological aging of the immune system, may change. The possible use of a potential immunotropic drug for complex treatment of patients with COVID-19 is theoretically substantiated.