Yet another interesting article about the coronavirus, and finally possibly a truly major breakthrough... uk.news.yahoo.com
I would bet that France is using this on as many of their patients as they can skipping any red tape, as their recovery rates (speed) are far higher than any other European nation at currently about 13% of their cases having already recovered despite having an increase of new cases by a larger number, so far around a 20% increase per day. Italy for instance seems to be finally slowing down a bit (percentages in the mid teens now), but only about 10% of their cases (around 4,000) have recovered despite having had over 4,000 confirmed cases for at least two weeks now, and over 45,000 now. France has had over 1,300 recoveries and it's only been about 10 days since they had that number of cases. Their current proportion of recoveries is getting pretty close to South Korea's (about 25% of cases have recovered, or about 2,000), which has had over 2,000 cases for three weeks now. Also Belgium has reportedly been using this along with France, China and South Korea, and they just had a one day spike in reported recoveries with almost ten percent of their cases having recovered despite having an increase of around 20% new cases each day.
This will be big news very soon, and already Trump is talking about this. Let's see if he and/or congress can move heaven and earth to get the drug approved without the usual FDA malarkey, although physicians seem to be prescribing it anyway.
It might be only a matter of days and not months before we can finally start SC mongering again...
If the side effects of chloriquine are anything like the ones for mefloquine, skipping the "malarkey" might come back to bite them. But being psychotic is better than being dead, right?