Breakthrough: Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of COVID-19

[Claritie Pixie]

This is exciting! Chloroquine is an old, cheap, and safe drug that's given for malaria.

The Chinese are using it in clinical trials to treat COVID-19 pneumonia in the sickest patients and it appears to be working! Blocks the infection.

If this holds up could be a game changer. 🤞

Here's the publication:

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/advpub/0/advpub_2020.01047/_pdf

[CountAllVotes]

1. Add some zinc

and you MIGHT have something there.

Chloroquine is quinine, nothing new at all. Its been used in the past to treat malaria.

[Midnightwalk]

3. Add some gin

and then you will have something



Seriously a treatment would be great

[mitch96]

34. I'll have a gin and tonic and not a Corona virus wth a twist of Lyme disease...... nt

[Claritie Pixie]

7. Not the same drug, same class. Agree with adding Zinc.

[CountAllVotes]

38. My father had malaria

He contracted it during WWII.

He drank quinine water often and he also used to take zinc with it as it helped make the quinine work better he used to say.

He also took vitamin C and vitamin E.

He also contracted dengue fever and beri-beri to go with the malaria which never goes away.

I often wonder how he lived to be as old as he did in hindsight which was 75 years with a load of suffering that went with it. My poor Dad. How I miss him so!

[OhNo-Really]

17. 2nd time I've seen this floater. I hope so

[emmaverybo]

20. Also anti malaria drugs have been used on lupus.

[Ms. Toad]

2. Covid19 v. tinnitus. Hard call.

Living with tinnitus for decades - aggravated by Q-Vel, which I took for restless leg in the early 80s.

But I guess if I get the pneumonia, rather than a mild case, it is good to have options.

[nilram]

16. A friend would get horrendous nightmares with chloroquine.

So he lived for two years in malaria country without it. But if we can get some protection to the herd in general, that’d be great.

[dalton99a]

4. WHO is skeptical:

https://factcheck.afp.com/chloroquine-has-not-been-approved-treatment-covid-19

Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on February 17 that “Chinese experts, based on the result of clinical trials, have confirmed that chloroquine phosphate... has a certain curative effect on the novel coronavirus disease”.

These trials were being conducted on “over 100 patients”, according to Sun Yanrong, deputy head of the China National Center for Biotechnology Development under the Ministry of Science and Technology.

A brief overview of the findings published by the Japan-based journal BioScience Trends provided few details as to how the trials were carried out.

In a press conference on February 20, Janet Diaz, head of clinical care within the WHO Emergencies Programme, said that “for chloroquine, there is no proof that that is an effective treatment at this time.”

At the time of writing, the World Health Organization (WHO) states that “to date, there is no vaccine and no specific antiviral medicine to prevent or treat COVID-2019”.

[jberryhill]

6. Okay, I'll bite. Who is skeptical?

[JDC]

8. 1st base

[jberryhill]

11. Sometimes his wife is skeptical

[dalton99a]

10. Why?

[jberryhill]

13. Because one of the authors was Xu

[Yavin4]

24. I didn't write it. Who did. n/t

[AZ8theist]

30. This will clear it up. President Ronald Reagan:

[Rollo]

32. Classic, LOL...

[PSPS]

25. First time I've seen Laughing Elsie's mask! LOL. You crack me up!

[calimary]

31. Not quite. The Who ARE skeptical.

Plural.

[Bongo Prophet]

36. I get on my knees and pray, we won't be fooled again!

[Claritie Pixie]

9. As they should be. Methodology is missing.

Definitely need to study it more to confirm or debunk.

[VOX]

33. Don't knock The Who, they were a very influenza-- I mean...*influential* band.

They were a big part of rock’s mid-1960s “British Invasion.”
:

[jberryhill]

5. You mean it's not cured by toilet paper?

Dafuq am I going to do with all this toilet paper?

[Wounded Bear]

22. Ok, that got a chuckle...

[Tucker08087]

12. I take that

as a treatment for Lupus. I take it every day. Maybe I’ll get through this after all!

[RockRaven]

14. Is now a bad time to point out that TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) as now fetishized by

so many in the west was an outgrowth of Mao/CCP not having the resources available to offer what other nations could in terms of the latest evidence-/science-based treatments to the general population, so they promoted the virtues of what was available to offer?

Can nobody envision any similarity which would trigger in them some skepticism until the results are repeated elsewhere absent any agenda/COI?

[mr_lebowski]

15. Did you guys know powdered Rhino Horn can turn a man into a stud between the sheets?

It's true.

It really, really is ...

[denem]

18. What about tied up on a chair?

[mr_lebowski]

19. Let me ask my apothecary, I'll get back to you ... (nt)

[denem]

21. We could put the chair between the sheets.

OK, enough already

[Captain Zero]

23. bwahahaha

thanks for the laugh

[PSPS]

26. Yes, but is it better than Jim Bakker's Silver Solution? People say that's god's benchmark for this.

[Dopers_Greed]

27. Given that Chinese "medicine"

is partially responsible for the wet markets that caused this thing in the first place.

I'll believe it when I see it.

[DanieRains]

28. God I Hope So

Nothing on CNN or MSNBC....

[James48]

29. Hate to break it to you

But that release was issued February 19, and there isn’t any further information I could find since.

I’m sure if it were actually working, we would be hearing much more about it now, don’t you think? It wa three weeks ago when this was published.

[Drahthaardogs]

39. Chloroquine worked on MERS and SARs

It probably does help.

[MuseRider]

35. Holy cow I used to have a ton of that around

for my RA. Wish I still took that now.

[indigovalley]

37. Medical studies are starting on this drug

There are clinical trials currently underway to determine if Chloroquine really is a drug that can fight the Conona virus. They are primarily in China, which sounds suspicious, but I don't think the doctors there would have anything to gain from lying about this med or making unsubstantiated claims. There have been previous studies showing that Chloroquine is effective in fighting the deadly SARS virus which is related to COVID19 so its possible it has a similar affect on this current virus. I think the Chinese doctors have reported what they have seen clinically but are now gather the scientific evidence needed to support their claims, sort out the various factors that may be involved, and provide data to the medical community. There may be similar studies underway here in the USA as well.

Japan also is testing drug combinations on COVID19, not Chlorquine, but anti-viral HIV medications. Its possible some of these may be proven effective also.

Like others here I take Hydroxychloroquine daily for an autoimmune disease (Lupus). I'm following this closely because if this med has a positive effect on fighting the virus that will be a huge discovery.

[BComplex]

40. Chloroquine phosphate - is it easy to get? Can my doctor prescribe it?

If so, I'll send him a link to this thread!