Chloroquine?
theDirkDiggler
Illinois
Thursday, March 19, 2020 7:07 PM
Yet another interesting article about the coronavirus, and finally possibly a truly major breakthrough...
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/chloroquine-70…
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...
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/chloroquine-70…
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...
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https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/19/french…
It's being used right now and for decades, not just for malaria, but also rheumatoid arthritis and lupus and seems to be tolerated well. The biggest danger is overdose, especially in children (whom in the case of COVID-19 shouldn't be prescribed this anyway, as they're very likely to fully recover quickly regardless) , and that's why there's a much less toxic version in hydroxychloroquine. Also best results seem to be found when it is combined with the antibiotic azithromycin. Who knew that an antimalarial and an antibiotic would have any effect on a virus?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/m…
According to the article, this may be even more effective than chloroquine, as it turned patients negative in a median of 4 days, compared to 5 days for the hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin combination. Also this clinical trial involved 340 patients so about 10x as many as the French experiment. I only wish they stated what percentage of patients overall recovered which would have been helpful. Although the words "clearly effective" were used, which were words that Dr. Fauci refused to use when briefed today about the use of chloroquine along with Trump. It seems this particular virus isn't all that difficult to "kill" once you know how to do it safely. Apparently there really are numerous ways to skin a cat...
elitecorey-good to have a friend that specializes in certain "specialties."
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd6aLnPH…
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You mean like taking drugs that are not FDA approved
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Thanks for the platitude. We're facing complete economic destruction unless the fiscal stimulus is done right and it will probably be in the trillions.