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Public Announcement: Remdesivir And Chloroquine Can Cure Coronavirus by sexylassie(f): 11:20pm On Feb 06, 2020
Researcher has found that HIV anti viral drug remdesivir and another popular anti malaria drug called chloroquine [/b]can cure Coronavirus.

[b]Proof from medical journals


a 35-year-old man in Washington state, the first U.S. patient to have been infected with the new coronavirus. When his symptoms worsened, the man was given an unapproved antiviral drug called remdesivir that was originally developed to treat Ebola,

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191?query=featured_home

Doctors gave this drug to the patient by making a "compassionate use" request to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which allows experimental drugs to be given to people outside of clinical trials, usually in emergency situations. The patient, who was recently released from the hospital, didn't seem to experience any side effects of the drug.

In animal models, scientists have found that remdesivir can knock down similar coronaviruses, such as the ones that cause Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

Recently, a group of researchers tested a number of antivirals in the lab for their effectiveness against the new coronavirus. They found that remdesivir stopped the virus from replicating in a lab dish. Similarly, the group found that chloroquine β€” an approved and widely used anti-malarial and autoimmune disease drug β€” was also effective in stopping the virus from spreading in human cells in the lab, the researchers reported in a short letter published Feb. 4 in the journal

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-020-0282-0

Full article can be read here https://www.livescience.com/possible-treatments-new-coronavirus.html

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