Posted on 03/18/2020 8:43:44 PM PDT by TChad
As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, some drugs are showing promise in treating patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. There are no approved treatments or vaccines for COVID-19, but researchers are testing a slew of existing drugs to see if they could work. One of those drugs is called chloroquine, a widely used anti-malaria pill that was first approved in the US in 1949. Countries including China, South Korea, and Belgium have added it to COVID-19 treatment guidelines as anecdotal reports have suggested that it might work.
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The cost is 5 cents per pill. Today on Carlson’s show, a test of 40 victims in Italy and 100 success rate. Let’s hope and pray for this.
Pour me another gin and tonic.
I wish. The dosage is too low.
I have taken Chloroquine.
Thank you! That's exactly the sort of info I was looking for, and exactly the result I was hoping for.
I think guzzling about 6 quarts of tonic water a day would give an adequate dose.
Did you have bad diarrhea? Any other side effects?
So have I, NASTY NASTY NASTY!!!
Reads like every other book of side effects that comes with nearly all drugs these days.
“chloroquine “MAY” cause some unwanted effects”
Luckily, I suffered no ill effects.
I heard about this study from radio talk show host, Kevin McCullough
Here is his tweet with video of what he discovered as he interviewed researchers:
https://twitter.com/KMCRadio?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
For the scientifically inclined with the patience to read through the research study, here is the paper written about the results at Johns Hopkins University that replicated the French study:
TITLE:
An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Presented by: James M. Todaro, MD (Columbia MD, jtodaro2@gmail.com) and Gregory J. Rigano, Esq. (grigano1@jhu.edu)
In consultation with Stanford University School of Medicine, UAB School of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences researchers.
March 13, 2020
Risky lots of side effects. Cheap. Simple.
Silver ions. Much Better. More effective. No cost. No downside
My First Ship(USS Independence CV-62) pulled into Pt Louis Mauritius in 1981 and the WHOLE Ship had to take this HELLHOLE Drug before we made port and(I think) when we left we had to take ANOTHER HELLHOLE Drug(I forget the name. 3 weeks of HELL just for one SHITTY Port.
Please share the gruesome details.
I wish. The dosage is too low.
Then pour me another!
While unpublished yet, the first patient trial of Plaquenil for COVID-19, conducted in Marseilles, France, has reported encouraging early results. The trial, announced in a video on Monday, was led by Didier Raoult, a physician-scientist who has published on microbes for several decades.
According to a draft article by Raoults team and obtained by me, 36 patients were enrolled in the trial, including 16 infected controls and 20 treated patients. The test group was given 600 mg daily of Plaquenil, which is on the WHOs List of Essential Medicines and has been used for malaria, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.
At day three, the study reported, 50 percent of the treated group turned from positive to negative for the COVID-19 virus. By day six, 70 percent tested negative.
As intriguing, of the 20 test patients, six who were treated with both Plaquenil and the antibiotic azithromycin did even better, the team reported. Five of the six, or 83 percent, tested negative at day three. All six, 100 percent, tested negative at day six.
Meanwhile, the control patients largely stayed sick longer. On days three and six, just 6.3 percent and 12.5 percent, respectively, tested negative. The research paper did not include how they were alternatively treated.
Raoults findings prompted the French Minister of Health Tuesday to approve expanded treatment trials, with one commencing in Lille, according to France 3, a public television station.
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