Posted on 03/31/2020 5:21:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
PUTRAJAYA: The anti-malarial drug chloroquine has shown its efficacy in the treatment of Covid-19 patients since the first wave of the outbreak in Malaysia, the director-general of health, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, said.
He said the drugs’ anti-inflammatory properties were effective in treating Covid-19 which causes inflammation of the lower respiratory tract.
Noor Hisham said a similar anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine and a combination of antiviral drugs lopinavir and ritonavir had also been used in the treatment of patients in Malaysia.
There had been promising results but further research was still required.
Noor Hisham said the number of deaths from Covid-19 had increased as the patients who succumbed were either elderly, had comorbidities such as high blood pressure and kidney disease, or had sought treatment at a later stage or after they began having breathing difficulties.
Noor Hisham said the ministry would also focus on the latest drug, remdesivir, which is also part of a joint study with the World Health Organization involving many other countries,” he said.
Let’s look at how Malaysia, neighbor to Singapore, is doing in their battle against the disease.
Are their media outlets reliable?
I know that the Chinese media lie...
Then how could the EU just announce there is “no evidence” it’s effective?
You’d think WHO would have an up-to-date database of all the drugs being tested and used in countries all over the world, parameters of trials, numbers of test patients, outcomes of drugs being prescribed, dosages and frequencies, cocktails, etc.
Shouldn’t they be the global clearinghouse for all this data?
Instead we read about it in individual newspaper and journal articles one at a time. Maybe I’m unaware of it, but if they had such a program, wouldn’t they be advertising it heavily the world over?
Here are Malaysia’s numbers today (March 31,2020):
POPULATION OF MALAYSIA: 32 Million
Coronavirus Cases: 2,766
Deaths: 43
Recovered: 537
ACTIVE CASES
Currently Infected Patients: 2,186
Mild Condition: 2,092 (96%)
Serious or Critical: 94 (4%)
CLOSED CASES: 580
Cases which had an outcome:
Recovered / Discharged: 537 (93%)
Deaths: 43 (7%)
SOURCE: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/malaysia/
Here are Malaysia’s numbers today (March 31,2020):
POPULATION OF MALAYSIA: 32 Million
Coronavirus Cases: 2,766
Deaths: 43
Recovered: 537
ACTIVE CASES
Currently Infected Patients: 2,186
Mild Condition: 2,092 (96%)
Serious or Critical: 94 (4%)
CLOSED CASES: 580
Cases which had an outcome:
Recovered / Discharged: 537 (93%)
Deaths: 43 (7%)
SOURCE: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/malaysia/
Aren’t we midway through a 10,000 patient test in NYC? Supposedly this study will give us the answer as to whether it is definitely effective.
Shouldn’t they be the global clearinghouse for all this data?
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Not sure what to expect out of NYC for these trials. Are they offering only to the critical patients in ARDS? If so, the media will completely jump on this when the results are far from remarkable. Some positive info out of a hospital in NJ, but no hard statistics.
By studiously ignoring this:
https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-IHU-2-1.pdf
I think it is difficult for these medical professionals because everyone wants one quick fix.
Unfortunately, it seems there is one combo of drugs that work for keeping you from getting Covid-19, a different combo if you are infected but not ill, and an even different set if you are ill.
Also, if you have already been taking some of these drugs, it could alter the effect the other combos have.
We should not be surprised if it turns out that different people, different environments need different treatments.
“Then how could the EU just announce there is “no evidence” it’s effective?”
They didn’t. They said it was not “proven”. (I guess to the level of formal bureaucratic certification).
Unethical “journalists” at Reuters, restated that to “no evidence”, and “no proof”.
Very different standards. I suspect it was a deliberate distortion.
WHO is also very involved with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Their focus is on vaccines. Dr. Fauci is also involved. Notice how he seems to prefer talking about vaccines in 18 months rather than a cure now.
I think it is a 1000 patient trial, that either began last Tuesday, or three days ago, or today, or will begin later this week, according to different sources. Since this trial is very important, it is being well covered by the media. Right?
Orange Drug Bad.
Agree in principle, however Dr. Didier Raoult’s studies included a wide variety of age, gender, symptons, and severity in both of his recent studies, both of which were close to 100% positive results. Would expect a result of no less than 70-80% success with the NYC trials unless they designed the trial around a very narrow test group (e.g. ARDS patients)
For it to be a “cure” it has to work with ARDS patients at every level of illness otherwise it’s a therapeutic. In reality there is no such thing as a cure for viruses. Once a virus enters the human body it only knows one thing replicate and replicate some more. Any drug given is to slow or halt that replication so the bodies natural T Cells and or white blood cells can then remove the virus from the body. The medication does not “kill” a virus it was never alive in the first place its not a bacterium that has life processes. A vaccine is the ONLY way to prevent infection over the long term. There’s promise that taking antibodies from a survivor and infusing an infected could slow the replication enough to give the second person time to rid the virus. The cold truth is this bug will keep jumping from host to host until a vaccine is perfected and widely distributed or enough people have survived infection to have herd immunity. Drugs only treat the infected and give them a chance at surviving very few prevent infection in the first place.
Malaria drugs do not prevent infection from malaria as a geologist I have taken malaria drugs to work all over the tropics you will get bit by mosquitoes,you will get the malaria bug in your blood stream you will test positive for malaria if you have been taking quinine for at least two weeks before being inoculated you probably will not get a full blown case of malaria and once you leave the hotzone and stop being infected with malaria your body will rid the rest of the parasites that the drug has keep to a smaller and manageable number.
Agree, this treatment is considered therapeutic with the intent to reduce the duration that an infected person would shed the virus, reduce hospitalization time and in some cases avert the need for critical care. Certainly not a cure for the advanced stages of this disease where expected survival is less than a 50% chance. It was never considered highly effective in late stages involving ARDS. Barring patient contraindications , the French studies highly suggest it should be administered before conditions become severe. If the New York City trials are heavily weighted for patients on ventilation the benefits of this treatment will be unfortunately hidden from the public.
It's a test of 1,100 patients, and it was to have started on Monday, March 30.
If anyone has more details, please post.
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