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A malaria pill from the 1940s has caught the eyes of doctors, analysts, and even Elon Musk as a potential coronavirus treatment
businessinsider ^ | 3-18-2020 | Andrew Dunn

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; china; chinavirusdrugs; chinavirustreatment; chloroquine; coronavirus; covid19; elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; gavinnewsom; spacex; treatment
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To: Tellurian
From the French trial: ... Hydroxychloroquine clinical safety profile is better than that of chloroquine (during long-term use) and allows higher daily dose [13] ...

How interesting -- and encouraging! Thank you so much for pinging me to that info.

81 posted on 03/18/2020 11:24:39 PM PDT by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: TChad

Plaquenil is not that bad. It’s just not. In combo with a Z-pack (azithromycin) you wouldn’t know any side effects other than the Z-pack shuffle (diarrhea).


82 posted on 03/18/2020 11:25:03 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: Herakles

The vast majority of people who work for Big Pharma, some of whom post here on FR, will be extremely happy to see this damn plague defeated, even if their companies don’t make a cent off a low tech solution.


83 posted on 03/18/2020 11:25:45 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: TChad

Have taken many antimalarials back in my corporate days, Lariam, Paludrine, Chloroquine, never noticed side effects from any of them.
Of course dosages for WuFlu might be different.


84 posted on 03/18/2020 11:50:46 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: Army Air Corps

Mefloquine is NOT another version of chloroqine, it is also known as Lariam which is infamous for its negative side effects on some folks. When I picked up my pills at the local pharmacy he said this is terrible stuff where are you going?

Didn’t see negative effects at all but apparently if you take it for a couple of months or more it can be very different.


85 posted on 03/18/2020 11:58:52 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: TChad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7F1cnWup9M

This doctor had a new video on CV-19 about 5 days a week. Grab a biochemistry/physiology book and read up.

I tried to get this from my doctor on Tuesday and he would NOT give it to me. But his assistant got on the phone and spent 15 minutes talking to the pharmacist.

I think they know it works and they are saving it for those who are exposed.

I have taken quinine before for restless leg, and it did not work, I did have some ringing in my ears.

Tonic water only has a tiny amount. Thanks to the Freeper who posted the map of Covid-19 vs. map of malaria.

86 posted on 03/19/2020 12:18:00 AM PDT by Battle Axe (Repent, for the Lord is coming.)
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To: TChad

bkmk


87 posted on 03/19/2020 12:42:26 AM PDT by sbnsd
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To: Army Air Corps

And... ?


88 posted on 03/19/2020 1:20:33 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Truthoverpower

“Systemic argyria associated with ingestion of colloidal silver”

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0832g6d3


89 posted on 03/19/2020 1:24:01 AM PDT by gasport (Corona delenda est)
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To: TChad
Glad to see this thread

I posted this earlier

Interesting cure for malaria works for Wuhan virus.

6 day cure.

https://www.covidtrial.io/

74 posted on 3/18/2020, 6:41:26 PM by Syncro (Facts is Facts)

90 posted on 03/19/2020 1:38:45 AM PDT by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: TChad

“...and even Elon Musk as a potential coronavirus treatment”

That would be a hard pill to swallow...kinda like Flintstone vitamins only bigger.


91 posted on 03/19/2020 1:48:01 AM PDT by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: TChad
If this works, it will be good news. Chloroquine is an old, well-understood, inexpensive drug, that can be taken orally. It can have undesirable side effects.

Oh, no. We can't have anything simple, indexpensive, and (worst of all!) effective that undercuts the bloated, slow, expensive, dictatorial, and panic-mongering apparatuses that we have now! /s

92 posted on 03/19/2020 2:51:13 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: TianaHighrider

“Do not taunt Chloroquine.”


93 posted on 03/19/2020 2:52:45 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: TChad

BREAK OUT THE GIN AND TONIC FOR EVERYONE!


94 posted on 03/19/2020 3:28:35 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (0 once was blind but now I see...)
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To: TChad

I posted this yesterday.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3825677/posts


95 posted on 03/19/2020 3:35:50 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Avigan is very effective

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8125513/Drug-used-treat-flu-Japan-clearly-effective-Chinese-officials-say.html


96 posted on 03/19/2020 3:41:33 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: TChad
I took quinine for several months due to severe muscle cramping.

The only (yeah only) side effect that my doctor (who took it also for YEARS), was sudden heart attack syndrome.

The meds really worked for cramping

97 posted on 03/19/2020 4:11:30 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: Syncro

I love you.


98 posted on 03/19/2020 4:18:46 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The living will envy the dead.)
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To: US Navy Vet

I have taken it as well. It gave me the back door trots and the taste was awful. The Navy corpsmen handed them out in the pay line as a way to make you take it. I finally learned how hold it in mouth without swallowing it. Pick up my pay and go spit it out.


99 posted on 03/19/2020 4:26:42 AM PDT by ExSafecracker (Hey media. . . thats President Trump to you.)
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To: TChad

Thanks.


100 posted on 03/19/2020 4:27:08 AM PDT by boycott
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