Posted on 05/03/2020 7:23:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As a pharmacist, Chiusolo next evaluated the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat SARS-CoV-2, which in some cases has been found to reduce hospitalizations from the virus. Hydroxychloroquine is currently in use for the treatment of autoimmune diseases worldwide, such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, and has been used for years to treat malaria.
She said that in addition to the drug’s antiviral and immunomodulatory effect, it binds to the ferriprotoporphyrin of the ecgonine methyl ester (EME), blocking the key enzyme of malaria. “So, I thought this same mechanism could be used against SARS-CoV-2... Indeed, a study by a Chinese university shows that SARS-CoV-2 binds to the beta chain of hemoglobin, inhibiting EME metabolism.”
Ferriprotoporphyrin is the group responsible for the oxygen binding of hemoglobin.
Chiusolo said that hydroxychloroquine could act as a prophylactic, preventing or limiting the symptoms of the disease while waiting for the formulation of the vaccine that specifically stimulates the antibody response of the body. She said it could make the patient immune to COVID-19 and/or limit its side effects.
AS for those who are impatient... sorry, you have to wait some more. According to her:
The Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA), the national authority responsible for drug regulation in Italy, has an approved trial of hydroxychloroquine on 2,500 patients, which will start in early July and focus on the use of hydroxychloroquine in prophylaxis, Chiusolo said. The study, for which preliminary data would be ready within 16 weeks, will look at whether the preventive intake of the drug decreases the probability of contracting COVID-19 when one comes directly into contact with a positive patient.
For Hydroxychloroquine acting as a prophylaxis, here are her observations:
The International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents describes how a healthcare worker infected with the novel coronavirus traveled freely within a hospital before being diagnosed with the virus.
“It was not possible to quarantine everyone who had come into contact with the healthcare worker,” Chiusolo said. So, they treated 211 healthcare professionals and patients with hydroxychloroquine. After 10 days, nobody tested positive for the coronavirus.
Furthermore, Chiusolo told the Post, the Italian Society of Rheumatology interviewed 1,200 rheumatologists throughout Italy to collect statistics on contagions. Out of an audience of 65,000 chronic lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients who systematically take hydroxychloroquine, only 20 patients tested positive for the virus.
OF COURSE, THERE ARE SKEPTICS, ESPECIALLY IN THE USA.
Here is what happened in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston.:
“The accumulating evidence is that there is limited data to suggest efficacy and there’s growing evidence that suggests toxicity,” Dr. Howard Gold, infectious disease doctor at BIDMC, said of the drug hydroxychloroquine in an interview published by the Boston Herald.
The BIDMC study evaluated 90 adults infected with the novel virus, each of whom received at least one day’s treatment of hydroxychloroquine, which can stay in the body for up to three weeks, according to Gold.
“Scientists are very open to revolutionary ideas,” Goldblum said, but he noted that “science is built in steps… They must have some backing. In my opinion, currently there are none.”
I’m not a scientist I just play one on freerepublic but these results sounds staggeringly positive.
I’ve not read rebuttals to them in the news, perhaps because there is none.
Thank you very much for this information. That seems very promising, especially in light of us learning more about how the virus actually works in the body.
As far as American “scientists” go, I don’t care what they say about absolutely anything at all, but especially on HC, because they have no credibility whatsoever.
It’s amazing that TDS has become an actual contagious mental disease, and they will kill you over it.
RE: I’ve not read rebuttals to them in the news, perhaps because there is none.
See Post #4 above.
Lame stream media attack in 3,....2,....
Motivations seem to be primarily financial or Trump hatred.
This was some of the best damn anecdotal evidence I've ever heard.
This is devastating news for the MSM and communists(democrats.) It must be suppressed, discredited, and absolutely overwhelmed by negative "studies."
Orange Man Bad and citizens must die to prove it.
OANN had a female doctor from Florida on a few weeks ago - she explained it all very well...perhaps this Italian “discoverer” saw the broadcast...
Time moves slow when waiting for a miracle...
They will probably counter these studies by quoting Dr. jill
RE: perhaps this Italian “discoverer” saw the broadcast...
Or the Florida doctor saw the Italian study. Or better still, they came into this discovery INDEPENDENTLY.
Drink Tonic Water and take zinc.
I've read this in a variety of places over the past week. Seems to me there's something to this.
The problem is that big pharma doesn’t make a lot of money from HCQ. It’s just that simple. Probably has Gates fingerprints on any denial.
This is the first time I have seen this explicitly stated anywhere - after 3 months of "news" coverage...
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