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Whoa! Put the flag down! If you look at my history in my profile you'll see that I _anticipated_ your questions about the chloroquine phosphate studies but now
by WilsonPaige 7y ago
Whoa! Put the flag down! If you look at my history in my profile you'll see that I _anticipated_ your questions about the chloroquine phosphate studies but now been provided enough information so that I do not doubt that chloroqine phosphate is a very good treatment (in conjunction with zinc).
Some links for Chloroquine phosphate:
"Breakthrough: Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of COVID-19 associated pneumonia in clinical studies":
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-02-13/fighting-covid-19-with-drugs-targeting-hiv-malaria-ebola https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-02-13/fighting-co...
L.A.Times article with links (feel free to chase the links yourself) that gives more detail about the above paper cited:
"A more unorthodox remedy being tested against the coronavirus in China is chloroquine.
The drug is intended to treat malaria, a condition caused by a parasite transmitted through a mosquito bite. A limited number of studies suggest the drug can work against SARS. In laboratory tests, it kept COVID-19 from spreading by blocking its method of infecting cells, according to a report last week in the journal Cell Research."
The Chinese source re chloroquine, was posted on ycombinator by sp332 3 hours ago (I quote him below):
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/14/1/14_2020.01047/_article https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/14/1/14_2020.01047/...
"This summarizes the results of a bunch of trials that were run in parallel in China."
You can do your own search for information on the effects of zinc on viruses and in particular corona viruses - it's old story (dating back to circa 1970s at least), the results have created a entire industry of zinc-related products (zicam et al).