Possible cure for the coronavirus

Check this out from last night.  Of course most likely this will not be THE magic bullet but it does show how quickly research is progressing. I hope this coronavirus turns out to be similar to SARS, MERS and Swine Flu which came and went quickly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ztt8old44

I had heard this talked about briefly on another network recently. Here's a scholarly article about it since Fox is usually a questionable source of info. Sounds promising, but early days.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s0924857920300820?via%3Dihub

The standard seasonal flu vaccine does not protect against swine flu, but you may request the swine flu vaccine as well.

FYI... A(H1N1) was definitely in the fall 2019 flu shot.
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You might be right. I wasn't looking closely enough to realize that my information was describing flu vaccines administered by United Kingdom's NHS:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=2ahUKEwig0NbWjafoAhVOUt8KHdzLADEQFjABegQIChAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nhs.uk%2Fconditions%2Fpandemic-flu%2Fdocuments%2Fsf%2520vaccination%2520leaflet_web.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1A3AJTL_Ja0LHmkxlelAnK

"If you are usually advised to have the seasonal flu vaccination, you should have it. You may be offered the swine flu vaccine as well. The seasonal flu vaccine does not protect against swine flu"

Read the 3/19 interview with epidemiologist Larry Brilliant on Wired. He's the guy who helped eradicate the smallpox pathogen, still active at age 75 & assessing the U.S. response to COVID-19. / Old Hat (39 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)

There are no US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs specifically for the treatment of patients with COVID-19. Right now our best hope is to develop a vaccine against COVID-19 which may take at least a year or more.

But President Trump's tweets put pressure to accelerate the start of public trials of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. Just minutes after Trump's tweets, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, an oncologist, clarified that the drug would be available “in the setting of a clinical trial — a large, pragmatic clinical trial — to actually gather that information and answer the question that needs to be answered and — asked and answered.”

And last Sunday New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that a study of the drug will start Tuesday (that means today). These drugs have already been cleared by the FDA for use against other diseases; they’re prescribed by doctors not just for malaria but also rheumatoid arthritis and lupus and have known safety profiles.

I don't know if the clinical trials for these drugs would have started so quickly without Trump's tweets.

The tough question is going to be "When do we get people back to work?" Presumably when the number of cases seems manageable. But we don't have the test capability to know what are the number of cases. E.g. Los Angeles County is specifically instructing health providers to NOT test people who merely exhibit symptoms of COVID-19. They want the limited tests saved for decisions regarding people who require hospitalization. It makes sense that the priority is for hospital staff to know for sure which patients are infected.

But nobody knows how many mild or asymptomatic cases exist. Hard to make a good decision about loosening restrictions when you don't have data on the magnitude of the problem, or how fast it's growing, or what is the real mortality rate.

Seems to me we have to get test availability first. Can't steer the car if you're blind.

Post Edited (Casey_LB) : 3/24/2020 8:32:31 PM (GMT-6)

I had to remove several posts for getting political. This article by 2 Stanford doctors seems to make sense right now given that we really don’t know how many people are infected, just those tested.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464

As for drug trials, I’m all for expediting any trials so we can find a treatment that works against this horrible virus.

Now I’m locking this thread and will lock others that get political.