Posted this on another thread. Cipro as a possible substitute for azithromycin?
https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Azithro_COVID.pdf
Interesting at a glance. This is a “preprint” not yet accepted for publication. So you are accepting everything there “on faith”. This is a “bench study” meaning no actual humans were involved. Since it’s not a “Clinical Outcomes” it would take me hours to digest this paper. I quit doing research 30 years ago.
But I suppose it is possible a number of conventional antibiotics could have “in vitro” activity. What we need now is something that changes outcomes. This French Group seems to claim they have found the miracle cure. People who provide miracle cures to patients everyday seem to be a bit hesitant on “accepting the French at their word”. I can’t say why but I know why I don’t “trust” some people. (Just assuming if they had a great rep for integrity the world would jump on it. But they aren’t)
One thing my “instincts” tell me, if conventional antibiotics had antiviral effects that were significant we would have stumbled onto that serendipitously. People hospitalized for viral infections that were overwhelming have been put o all these antibiotics for concurrent infections in hospital for decades. One would think if there were significant clinical activity we would have noticed decades ago.
When Viagra was in R&D as a medicine for hypertension it was found to be “lacking” in clinical effect and was dropped. Then the “experimental group” started demanding access to the drug even though the holder of the patent had discarded it. They literally had no idea why people wanted their “worthless” drug. IOW, when there is a startling, real effect, someone notices.