It wouldn’t have mattered. Once Rabies is symptomatic it is 100% fatal. There has been 1 exception, an experimental treatment where they pretty much had to turn the patients brain off. She survived but I dont know the degree of her recovery.
Yes, pretty much experimental treatments is the only hope, and they don’t work either.
My then-teenage son got bitten by a bat the day before his high school graduation. It wasn’t until he did some Googling to find out that only one person has ever survived without being treated that he told his mom and me the next day. Since we were planning a family vacation out of state to Myrtle Beach immediately after his graduation, we had to work with the CDC to have his vaccine shipped to a doc-in-the-box there for administering over the next week (the doses need to be given at exact time intervals).
We were in a pretty big group of people in the waiting room with typical ailments, and he got called in ahead of them for his shot, since he didn’t need to see a doctor but only a nurse to administer it. They gave us the stink eye for cutting the line until my wife leaned over to the person next to her and said, “He’s getting a rabies shot.” They all gave us a little more space, and were happy at that point for us to be done and get out of there.