What is HydroxyCholoroquine? Donald Trump Says Malaria Drug Used for Coronavirus Has Been Approved by the FDA

Newsweek ^ | 03/19/2020 | BY ARISTOS GEORGIOU

[SeekAndFind]

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved hydroxychloroquine—a drug used to treat malaria, rheumatic diseases and other conditions—for COVID-19.

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, scientists are scrambling to identify treatments that may be effective against the disease. Hydroxychloroquine—a common derivative of chloroquine—is among those touted as most promising by some experts.

"The nice part is, it's been around for a long time, so we know that if things don't go as planned its not going to kill anybody," Trump told reporters at a press conference. "When you go with a brand new drug, you don't know if that's going to happen. Its shown very very encouraging early results and we're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately."

But how effective is the drug? This week, researcher Didier Raoult from Aix-Marseille University in France, one of the main proponents for using hydroxychloroquine to treat infection with the novel coronavirus—known as SARS-CoV-2—released encouraging results of a preliminary trial involving a total of 36 COVID-19 patients.

According to a draft paper—which has not yet been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal—six of these patients were asymptomatic, 22 had upper respiratory tract infection symptoms and eight had lower respiratory tract infection symptoms.

Between early and mid-March, Raoult and his team treated 20 of these patients with 600 milligrams of hydroxychloroquine daily in a hospital setting. Depending on their symptoms, an antibiotic known as azithromycin was also added to the treatments. This antibiotic is known to be effective against complications from bacterial lung disease. The 16 remaining patients were not given the drug as a control.

In the study, the scientists observed a "significant" reduction in viral load in the patients treated with hydroxychloroquine,

[Betty Jane]

Hyland’s Leg Cramp Medicine contains quinine

[dandiegirl]

Once a known and available treatment is used that works, this will end. Seems like sooner rather than later.

[gogeo]

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn needs a “come to Jesus meeting” with President Trump...

He needs a wingtip suppository.

[gogeo]

Stop their paychecks until the scare is over.

That may help their sense of urgency.

[steve86]

just ordered Quinine Pills 1000mg, Red Cinchona Bark (Cinchona succirubra) & Peruvian Bark (Cinchona officinalis) (Amazon)

[ifinnegan]

“I did the math on this earlier, you would have to drink a gallon and a half of tonic water to hit the medical dose level.”

That’s less than I would have thought.

[ifinnegan]

Hospitals almost always yes Tylenol, not Advil.

[Svartalfiar]

https://pinchandswirl.com/homemade-tonic-water-for-the-ultimate-gin-and-tonic/

[Svartalfiar]

Tonic water has been unavailable for a few days already.
...
I don’t think modern tonic water has enough quinine to be a “tonic” for any illness. But that won’t stop people from panic buying every bottle they can find.


I posted this to the thread at large, but I'll respond to y'all specifically discussing it. Cinchona bark can be hard to find, I'd suggest getting the bigger chunks, as the small ones apparently tend to powder-ize by the time they get to you, and you don't want to OD on quinine. (Use a couple coffee filters [paper ones] when you strain it.) FYI, I am definitely not a gin person, but the Gin n Tonics I made with this were pretty damn tasty!
Homemade Tonic Water for the Ultimate Gin and Tonic

[Svartalfiar]

I did the math on this earlier, you would have to drink a gallon and a half of tonic water to hit the medical dose level.

That depends entirely on the levels of quinine in your drink. Most commercially available tonic waters have miniscule to zero quinine in them. Try my links above, you'll have a tonic syrup that's much tastier than the store stuff, and it'll have a bigger kick of quinine as well.