Posted on 03/19/2020 8:08:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As the Wuhan coronavirus is ravaging countries across the globe, there may be some promising news on the horizon. According to Gregory Rigano, an advisor to Stanford University School of Medicine, a world renowned French researcher tested a promising COVID-19 treatment option with a drug that’s been around for decades and is typically used to treat malaria.
“As of this morning…a well-controlled peer reviewed study carried out by the most eminent infectious disease specialist in the world—Didier Raoult, MD, PhD—out of the south of France, in which he enrolled 40 patients…that showed a 100 percent cure rate against coronavirus," Rigano told Fox News's Tucker Carlson.
Carlson, looking shocked, said he “only knows what you’re telling me” but that it is “very unusual for a study of anything to produce results of 100 percent.”
Did he miss something, he wondered.
“That is remarkable. In fact to be able to cure a virus was said to be mathematically impossible,” Rigano said, noting that a small company did in fact create a cure for Hepatitis C.
“What we’re here to announce is the second cure to a virus of all time,” he said.
Carlson said that while it’s his job to be “skeptical of all and any claims” he said he certainly wants to believe this news and hoped the federal government could find out “if it’s true.”
UPDATE:
Full peer reviewed study has been released by Didier Raoult MD, PhD https://t.co/DzFTv13wYn.
After 6 days 100% of patients treated with HCQ + Azithromycin were virologically cured
p-value <.0001https://t.co/vttAIWbPwJ— Gregory Rigano (@RiganoESQ) March 18, 2020
“We included everyone who was in agreement [to be treated], which was almost everyone. Two towns in the protocol, Nice and Avignon, gave us [infected] patients who had not yet received treatment," Raoult said, according to The Connexion.
“We were able to ascertain that patients who had not received Plaquenil (the drug containing hydroxychloroquine) were still contagious after six days, but of those that had received Plaquenil, after six days, only 25% were still contagious.”
Is my humor a bit too wry today?
I have to admit. I have “eliminated outliers”. I did a study once where I had to count silver grains over slices of the basal ganglia. If it was clear the rinse was contaminated and the numbers were thousand fold off. That’s a bit different then “he died so we dropped him”.
Latest from the article: Update: President Trump confirmed Thursday that Hydroxychloroquine has been approved by FDA for prescription treatment of COVID-19.
Trump has lit a fire under them.
As a child in Indonesia I had malaria. My mother aalways gave me quinine tablets because it was the only medicine available that worked at that time. Quinine is made from the bark of a tree that grows high in the mountains in the Bandung area.
As a child in Indonesia I had malaria. My mother aalways gave me quinine tablets because it was the only medicine available that worked at that time. Quinine is made from the bark of a tree that grows high in the mountains in the Bandung area.
My mom took quinine tablets for leg cramps. She had to get them out of Canada because the FDA had banned them.
Totally new to me. In my youth quinine was used for malaria only.
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