The drug Trump has been touting for weeks flops yet again in another coronavirus study

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7. Maybe, maybe not, we still don't have any quality clinical trials

Chloroquine has been shown to have a beneficial effect on SARS in vitro since 2005, that's probably why the Chinese starting using it when the outbreak first appeared and probably what prompted the French doctor (Raoult) to try HCl. Lately I've read a couple of articles with more positive results but again they're not rigorous clinical trials. It would be wonderful if it works as part of an early treatment cocktail since Remdesivir is hard to come by, not easy to manufacture and requires daily injections.

I'm most anxiously awaiting clinical results of Avigan, early results were better than the chloroquines and I don't think it's a particularly difficult drug to manufacture. It's a pill so you don't have to go the hospital and again preliminary evidence suggests it works best when the virus is in its early stages.

In the meantime doctors seem to be learning a little more every week about what the virus is doing to the body and are better refining treatment protocol for patients. I'm hoping if people start going to the hospital when their oxygen levels start dropping we can get a better survival rate. Too many people showing up at the hospital are in bad condition, many times unaware just how sick they are.