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Showing Original Post only (View all)Breakthrough: Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of COVID-19 [View all]
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
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Claritie Pixie
Mar 2020
OP
I'll have a gin and tonic and not a Corona virus wth a twist of Lyme disease...... nt
mitch96
Mar 2020
#34
Is now a bad time to point out that TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) as now fetishized by
RockRaven
Mar 2020
#14
Did you guys know powdered Rhino Horn can turn a man into a stud between the sheets?
mr_lebowski
Mar 2020
#15