Posted on 03/16/2020 9:38:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A team of Australian researchers say they've found a cure for the novel coronavirus and hope to have patients enrolled in a nationwide trial by the end of the month.
University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research director Professor David Paterson told news.com.au today they have seen two drugs used to treat other conditions can wipe out the virus in test tubes.
He said one of the medications, given to some of the first people to test positive for COVID-19 in Australia, had already resulted in "disappearance of the virus" and complete recovery from the infection.
Prof Paterson, who is also an infectious disease physician at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, said it wasn't a stretch to label the drugs "a treatment or a cure".
"It's a potentially effective treatment," he said.
"Patients would end up with no viable coronavirus in their system at all after the end of therapy."
The drugs are both already registered and available in Australia.
"What we want to do at the moment is a large clinical trial across Australia, looking at 50 hospitals, and what we're going to compare is one drug, versus another drug, versus the combination of the two drugs," Prof Paterson said.
Given their history, researchers have a "long experience of them being very well tolerated" and there are no unexpected side effects.
"We're not on a flat foot, we can sort of move ahead very rapidly with enrolling Australians in this trial," Prof Paterson said.
"It's the question we all have - we know it's coming now, what is the best way to treat it?"
(Excerpt) Read more at thechronicle.com.au ...
Are these the two drugs that we’ve been reading about for several weeks? If so, in what sense were they just “discovered”?
Tom Hanks and his wife should get into this trial.
“One of the two medications is a HIV drug, which has been superseded by “newer generation” HIV drugs, and the other is an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine which is rarely used and “kept on the shelf now” due to resistance to (by) malaria.”
“One of the two medications is a HIV drug, which has been superseded by “newer generation” HIV drugs, and the other is an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine which is rarely used and “kept on the shelf now” due to resistance to (by) malaria.”
OK, so what are the expected side effects?
I’m sure this will be the lead story on every newscast./s
The good thing in all of this is that there are no more global warming protests.
Quinine eh? Well, gin and tonics (heavy on the tonic) for everyone!
I meant to ask, How’s Tom and his wife doing?
“OK, so what are the expected side effects?”
Gees!! Picky, picky, picky!
You take the early WA cases out of the equation and the mortality rate in the US is currently at .58%. South Korea which had a lot initial deaths (before any known treatment methods) is holding steady at .91%
Like I said the death rate and inversely the cure rate will be affected by all the wonderful cures on the way.
There are over 90 pharmaceutical companies working on a cure and vaccine, several are showing great progress (not factored into the death rate), Favilavir, Remdesivir, Actemra, REGN3048-3051, HIV Drugs, blood transfusions from survivors, etc.
The vaccine is close (in human testing). Nobody on the doom and gloom side is looking at all the positive things that are happening. The vaccine process will be short circuited and given to the most vulnerable within 6 months.
I meant to ask, How’s Greta doing?
“OK, so what are the expected side effects?”
The side effect of not taking could be a death sentence. And the possibility of spreading that death sentence to many others. These are know drugs, in use, and approved for a long time.
Potential drugs in USA, Germany, Australia, Isael, plus that ebola drug that apparently cured two people, at least one in very bad shape already, right here in the USA. Promising but it’s pretty likely that they will be too little too late for this outbreak. Could prevent another though so that’s great.
covid-19 will taper off in June. You heard it hear first. In the meanwhile practice containment, do not go anywhere if you have symptoms, call doctor on phone first and get instructions.
Promising but it’s pretty likely that they will be too little too late for this outbreak.
Huh? Most of these drugs are already approved and can be handed out today. The vaccine will take a little longer but the H1N1 vaccine went from Initial Phase I human testing to 65 million doses being administered in less than six months.
We are currently doing an Initial Phase I human testing in the US. But, other countries are short circuiting the process and might have a workable vaccine out and distributed in a couple months.
wasn’t that the big orange pill we took daily back in-country? there were yuge jars of them everywhere.
[[OK, so what are the expected side effects?]]
Exactly- liver damage possible? Gastrointestinal damage perhaps? blood disorders possible? Read of one drug they are testing that indicated it elevates liver readings, and has serous gastro issues- I think it’s one of the drugs listed in the article- not sure though-
"The RBWH Foundation has established a Coronavirus Action Fund. By Monday afternoon it had raised $30,000 of the desired $750,000 for the clinical drug trials and other related medical research. 'The trials will start as soon as funding is secured,' the fund states."
uh, yeah. yet ANOTHER story out of Australia with a miracle cure IF ONLY THEY HAD THE MONEY ...
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