Posted on 03/30/2020 6:14:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has made headlines in recent weeks for its potential to help with the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, though its benefits remain unproven. Now, a new study will test whether the drug can prevent COVID-19 transmission.
For the study, researchers in New York and Washington state plan to enroll 2,000 participants who are close contacts of people with confirmed or pending COVID-19 diagnoses.
Participants will be randomly assigned to take either hydroxychloroquine or a placebo for two weeks, and they will be tested daily for COVID-19, according to a statement from the University of Washington (UW), which will collaborate on the study with New York University (NYU).
The trial is expected to last eight weeks, and researchers hope to have the results by summer.
"Currently, there is no proven way to prevent COVID-19 after being exposed," Anna Bershteyn, an assistant professor of population health at NYU Langone Health and co-principal investigator on the study, said in the statement. "If hydroxychloroquine provides protection, then it could be an essential tool for fighting this pandemic. If it doesn't, then people should avoid unnecessary risks from taking the drug."
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they should be looking into whether anyone with lupus has caught Wuhan
Summer!? Heck, it’s already working to prevent the illness. I’ve heard people that are using it. Good grief. No wonder things usually move so slowly. They need to change their clocks to Trump time.
RE: Heck, it’s already working to prevent the illness
Exactly what does “working to prevent” mean?
Does it PROTECT Covid-19 negative people from contracting it like it does for Malaria?
Here is the Indian Government's recommendation, with dosage information.
I hope so. I want to get better. I hate this.
8 weeks???? Everything I’ve read says the results from this treatment are 6-10 days after treatment.
They weren’t given the Freaking medication to study! They were given it to treat the sick!!!!!!!!!!!
The summer? The recent results turned rather quickly.
Errr... It’s a nice image, but exactly which part of the article is BS?
Ah, the etat profund [French for deep state] at work again. We ought to have pretty conclusive evidence within one week that this changes the prognosis of cases.
Your DC swamp rates doing what they do against the public weal.
“Researchers hope to have the results by summer.”
No.,next week.
RE: Everything I’ve read says the results from this treatment are 6-10 days after treatment.
This study is NOT about treating people who are already Covid-19 positive, it’s about whether hydroxycholoroquine CAN PREVENT infection of as yet, non-infected people the way it does malaria.
Hold up...
“ Now, a new study will test whether the drug can prevent COVID-19 transmission.” NOT tests on the already sick.
That’s a whole different study. Now I understand why it would require eight weeks.
Summer 2020 or 2021? These people are insane!
we’ll all be dead by summer
RE: Summer 2020 or 2021?
Read the article, it says 6-8 weeks, which means THIS COMING SUMMER.
exactly.
So will the so called special elitist get it before Summer, but us peasants wait.
Wow....Good thought
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