Antiviral medicines created for past outbreaks like malaria, AIDS, amd Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) are being tested and showing early signs of success in treating the new coronavirus, experts say.
If the progress continues, medical experts in the United States could have a new regimen from drugs that are readily available and generally cheap to treat the most seriously infected patients and provide prophylactic protection for healthcare workers.
When the Chinese first reported the pneumonia cases to the World Health Organization on December 31, 2019, the new coronavirus’ full genome, which defines its pathogen, was forwarded to researchers on public databases.
What was discovered in early January 2020 was that the COVID-19 is in the same family as the coronaviruses that caused the outbreaks of both MERS and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) .
Since then, scientists and pharmaceutical researchers across the globe have been laser-focused on antiviral drugs already approved and used to fight MERS and SARS as well as HIV.
Karla Satchell, a microbiologist and immunologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, says “finding new uses for old drugs is a good strategy.” read more
Yay! The anti-malarial I’m on for Lupus is on the list. Guess I am safe from Wuhan virus.
Of course that didn’t stop me from getting the flu which has been kicking my ass since February 24th.
But, glass half full and all.
It seems street people from New York to Washington are immune to the virus. People living amid filth and squalor and may haven’t used soap in years are not infected in large numbers yet. Why?
Read the whole thing, as they say:
“Meanwhile, the Chinese are profiting immensely from the fire sale, as though they were prepared for it… Also consider that China owns large portions of our media companies, and China virtually controls the World Health Organization (WHO). When this thing started, Trump offered aid to China in the form of virology experts and medicines, but China refused that aid, insisting that everything be done through the WHO. The WHO assisted in the hype by calling something that looked like a common cold, once it got out of China, a “pandemic.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/did_china_panic_the_world_and_steal_our_wealth_with_a_common_cold.html
Could it be a case of taking the medicines will cure you after 14 days, but you have to wait two weeks if you don’t?