Malaria drug sees promising signs as future coronavirus treatment

washington examiner ^ | 3/18/2020 | Tim Pearce

[bitt]

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[preacher]

L8r

[Steven Scharf]

I be curious to know how sick the 20 patients were?

[Salvation]

for later

[RomanSoldier19]

🤞

[RandallFlagg]

Is this the same stuff they gave us in the military in the ‘90s when we went to Somalia? I don’t remember.

[DannyTN]

Excellent.

Chloroquinine's a malaria drug so there should be plenty of it. Don't know that but guessing.

Although most write ups on Azithromycin say it's for bacteria only and won't work on viruses, here's an article saying it does produce some anti-viral effects.

Azithromycin induces anti-viral effects in cultured bronchial epithelial cells from COPD patients

[struggle]

Guess we all should switch to gin and tonic.

[Guenevere]

Bttt

[MayflowerMadam]

When John Roberts asked Dr. Birx about hydroxychloroquine in the press conference today, she pooh-poohed it — was very dismissive.

There are several reports of it being extremely beneficial in different stages of WuFlu. It seems that Birx and Fauci aren’t eager to find something that will help. How many months have they been told to run out the clock?

[mmichaels1970]

[mmichaels1970]

When John Roberts asked Dr. Birx about hydroxychloroquine in the press conference today, she pooh-poohed it — was very dismissive.

Good. You heard it too. I thought I heard it. I was just glad to hear it start being whispered about.

[DannyTN]

So I was curious whom makes it and found this...

Hans AndersagChloroquine - Wikipedia Chloroquine was discovered in 1934 by Hans Andersag. It is available as a generic medication. The wholesale cost in the developing world is about US$ 0.04. In the United States, it costs about US$ 5.30 per dose.

Does it cost $5.30 here because there is just no market here? Or does it cost $5.30 because we've been getting screwed over?

[Bob Ireland]

***six patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin tested negative for the virus after six days***

Also called Chloroquine. FReepers take note... I think this may well be a key. Cheap and well tested (for malaria.)

[GOPJ]

We live in an amazing world...

[Capt. Tom]

Chloroquinine's a malaria drug so there should be plenty of it. Don't know that but guessing.

When I was in Korea from late 1955 through 1956 and into 1957 we were given those type of pills to prevent malaria.

Sixty days before we came home , we had to stop taking those pills to see if we came down with malaria.- Tom

[JohnBovenmyer]

Main limitation on this very encouraging news is the small study size. MSM says there are plenty of patients available in NYC. If the combo really cures them in 6 days Trump can prove it in the MSM’s front yard within a week. With the Dow’s greatest day in history following hours later. I’d imagine MSM seppuku would follow in more hours, but that would probably be delusions from over-celebration on my part.

[irishjuggler]

were given the antibiotic azithromycin, as well.

I've taken zithro a few times with bronchitis and it quickly cleared it right up. Glad to see that there are some doctors out there with brains. Wish I had a dollar for every quack I've encountered who's told me, "If it's viral, antibiotics won't do you any good." Bulls--t. Yes, it's true that antibiotics don't kill viruses BUT what they can do is prevent a secondary bacterial infection of all the mucus that the virus gunks up your chest with.

[shotgun]

Big Pharma is going to try and kill this. They stand to make billions developing a new drug with Uncle Sugar footing the bill.