While US media tries to paint a picture of an untreatable juggernaut, Europe's most published scientist in the field of infectious disease, Didier Raoult, has shrugged this virus off:
Well, here is a last minute scoop, a very important news. The Chinese, who are the fastest and who are very pragmatic, instead of looking to develop a new vaccine or a new molecule that could treat the coronavirus, they did what we call 'repositioning,' meaning they tested old molecules that are known and have been used in the past without showing toxic effects, to see if they could use some to treat the new coronavirus. They tested them for their new virus and found, just as it was found and forgotten for the SARS virus, Cloroquine is active in vitro, had been interviewed by the Chinese television.
I had been asked what advice I would give to the Chinese and what I was expecting from them. As I think they have the best virologist teams in the world, I had told them 'I hope that your researchers will be very fast to prove the efficacy of Chloroquine on Coronaviruses'. And now it's done! It's efficient on the Coronavirus. 500mg of Chloroquine per day during 10 days brings a spectacular improvement and is recommended for all clinical cases that tested positive for Coronaviruses.
It's excellent news.
Actually, of all respiratory infections it's probably the easiest to treat. So there is really no reason to get excited anymore. There is really no reason to get excited and rush to produce a vaccine. One just needs to work and look at which licensed molecules are potentially active and can be of immediate use. Now at this stage, of course, there soon could be a rush for Chloroquine in pharmacies.
Just came across that.
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