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Yes... okay there are various reports and studies.... I would have to go the original journals which I could to really get more solid info.
Here is the exerpt.... it does look promising for sure ... its just that it is not a randomized trial nor is the sample size large enough to really know more accurately how effective it will be.
Didier Raoult, director of a university hospital institute in Marseille, explained that he had conducted a clinical trial in which he treated 25 Covid-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine. After six days, he said, only 25 percent of patients who took this drug still had the virus in their body. By contrast, 90 percent of those who had not taken hydroxychloroquine continued to carry the Covid-19.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200320-will-an-old-malaria-drug-help-fight-the-coronavirus
Here is the exerpt.... it does look promising for sure ... its just that it is not a randomized trial nor is the sample size large enough to really know more accurately how effective it will be.
Didier Raoult, director of a university hospital institute in Marseille, explained that he had conducted a clinical trial in which he treated 25 Covid-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine. After six days, he said, only 25 percent of patients who took this drug still had the virus in their body. By contrast, 90 percent of those who had not taken hydroxychloroquine continued to carry the Covid-19.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200320-will-an-old-malaria-drug-help-fight-the-coronavirus
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Well, i saw an eeport from an german virologe, Christian Drosten he counsels our goverment in this corona stuff. He shows that the methods which they used in marseille were not very effizient. So they testest two different groups, which were not equal. ( f.e. one group was jounget then the other group) Normally two groups should be equal. Also they testet the virus in the throut, but not in the lung. After a certain time the virus anyway is disapaering in the throut. There also is no knowledge in which the patients were when the startet the study. And another point was, that the chloriquine was testet under lab conditions to the virus and stopped the virus spreading, but it is an different as it is testet in an body. The result in an body can be different. There a no results in curing a person. But this should be the measure a medicament helps ore not.
So Mr. Drosten reportet that to many questions are open, for to give an reasonable proof that this chloriquine will helps
So Mr. Drosten reportet that to many questions are open, for to give an reasonable proof that this chloriquine will helps
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Remember this drug is also the first drug they give people with Rheumatoid arthritis, which is the body attacking itself. That is why I was on it for a year, and why I still have some left from my last try. So, it does a lot more than fight malaria.
Plus, Plaquenil is Hydroxychloroquine, not chloroquine. Chloroquine is much older and much more toxic. It is called Quinine. It killed people who went on it for malaria. It is not used anymore. Plaquenil has been used for years to effectively treat RA. All the side effects are known, although how it works in the case of Corona Virus, might be something new. Something about dissolving the cell wall.
Plaquenil has been through clincial trials twice - once 50 years ago, for malaria and then again for RA usage. So, it is not like it hasn't been tested over and over, and found safe. I had no side effects with it, although there are a few, including the occasional allergy to the med. I'm not allergic to it, but I am to a lot of other meds, like penicillin and aspirin.
I did have some questions, Wolfwint about the trials in France. There was no control, or placebo group, and then the group that got it, plus double blind. They actually had a few things they were testing, including with an antibiotic, which is where they got their best results for Plaquenil. Although, because they were in a hurry to see if it worked, and how, so it could be manufactured and given to people. But, too late for people who have the disease right now, and can't wait 2 or 3 years for a proper clinical trial, and all that entails.
At any rate, if I do get sick, I will take the Plaquenil I have. It has never harmed me, at worst, it won't work. Better than dying, is my opinion.
Plus, Plaquenil is Hydroxychloroquine, not chloroquine. Chloroquine is much older and much more toxic. It is called Quinine. It killed people who went on it for malaria. It is not used anymore. Plaquenil has been used for years to effectively treat RA. All the side effects are known, although how it works in the case of Corona Virus, might be something new. Something about dissolving the cell wall.
Plaquenil has been through clincial trials twice - once 50 years ago, for malaria and then again for RA usage. So, it is not like it hasn't been tested over and over, and found safe. I had no side effects with it, although there are a few, including the occasional allergy to the med. I'm not allergic to it, but I am to a lot of other meds, like penicillin and aspirin.
I did have some questions, Wolfwint about the trials in France. There was no control, or placebo group, and then the group that got it, plus double blind. They actually had a few things they were testing, including with an antibiotic, which is where they got their best results for Plaquenil. Although, because they were in a hurry to see if it worked, and how, so it could be manufactured and given to people. But, too late for people who have the disease right now, and can't wait 2 or 3 years for a proper clinical trial, and all that entails.
At any rate, if I do get sick, I will take the Plaquenil I have. It has never harmed me, at worst, it won't work. Better than dying, is my opinion.
Thats why I said in first line it will be inhaled.
There is no study exist. I only said, that the amount of vira in the the throat says nothing about the amount if vira in the lung. You can have less vira in the throat, but a big mass in the lung. Ore an big mass in the throat and less in the lung. Its depent in which stage someone is. To take cells from the lung you need to make a bronchoscopy, which is not possible for the mass. And has also risks.
So it will be no study on it.
There is no study exist. I only said, that the amount of vira in the the throat says nothing about the amount if vira in the lung. You can have less vira in the throat, but a big mass in the lung. Ore an big mass in the throat and less in the lung. Its depent in which stage someone is. To take cells from the lung you need to make a bronchoscopy, which is not possible for the mass. And has also risks.
So it will be no study on it.
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I hope it will happen quickly for sure, and yes let us pray for this is tragic for sure for so many reasons. So much of this could have been averted that is the most frustrating part.
Anyway, from what I am being told the demand is still above the availability and it will take several months before production is up to speed, the way this virus travels and particularly some (not all) young people not being responsible that is not a good scenario for places like California, New York and Florida.
A family member who is a doctor, lives in Dallas who is a radio-oncologist, has been told that he will stop seeing his regular cancer patients and will be dealing only with virus patients on the front line exclusively because they know what is coming shortly.
Medical supplies are limited... this is a tragedy for our front line workers who put their lives on the line.
People just do not realize the complexity of this whole situation. And while people keep stating it only affects the vulnerable as though to say "why should I care" both sadden and infuriates me.
Anyway, from what I am being told the demand is still above the availability and it will take several months before production is up to speed, the way this virus travels and particularly some (not all) young people not being responsible that is not a good scenario for places like California, New York and Florida.
A family member who is a doctor, lives in Dallas who is a radio-oncologist, has been told that he will stop seeing his regular cancer patients and will be dealing only with virus patients on the front line exclusively because they know what is coming shortly.
Medical supplies are limited... this is a tragedy for our front line workers who put their lives on the line.
People just do not realize the complexity of this whole situation. And while people keep stating it only affects the vulnerable as though to say "why should I care" both sadden and infuriates me.
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