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Source: MSN NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — James Cannizzaro has a harrowing story for you. He tested positive for coronavirus, but says the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine helped save his life. “I feel pretty good. I’ve come a long way. It has been almost a month since I got the illness and, you know, I’m still on the oxygen. […]
Watch the video: A coronavirus patient is battling back against the disease, and a doctor for Broward Health said a controversial drug has been key to his continued recovery, which has showed promise. On Tuesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called on Dr. Sunil Kumar from Broward Health to discuss the possible benefits of hydroxychloroquine, a […]
Source: CBS New York Rich Yanuzzi went to Florida as he always does. Soon after, his brother contracts Covid-19 and is very ill. A day later, his mother gets a worse case. They get his mom to the hospital at 6pm. By 7.30pm they doctors told him that she really didn’t have a good chance […]
With many doctors around the world sharing their success stories about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine for treatment of COVID-19 patients, today, the American Thoracic Society issued suggestions Monday that counsel COVID-19 people with pneumonia get doses of the anti-malaria drug. The medical group, which was founded in 1905 to combat TB, the ATS has grown […]
Source: Eyewitness News, ABC7 (US) A woman who was treated with an experimental drug to fight the coronavirus is sharing her recovery story. “Once my fever was gone, it was gone, that was it,” Suzanne Schwing said. Schwing is smiling again and with good reason. She spent 10 days in a hospital room after she […]
Source: Ingraham Angle A Florida man diagnosed with coronavirus claims he was saved from certain death by an anti-malaria drug touted as a possible treatment by President Trump. Rio Giardinieri, 52, told Los Angeles’ Fox 11 that he struggled with horrendous back pain, headaches, cough and fatigue for five days after catching COVID-19, possibly at a conference in […]
Dr Stephen Smith, founder of The Smith Center for Infectious Diseases and Urban Health, said on “The Ingraham Angle” on Wednesday night that he is optimistic about the use of antimalarial medications and antibiotics to treat COVID-19 patients, calling it “a game-changer.” “I think this is the beginning of the end of the pandemic. I’m very serious,” Smith, […]
Frontline staff and approximately three quarters of patients are being treated with some form of Hydroxychloroquine. Watch the interview by Fox News.
Source: NY Times Last month, residents of Kiryas Joel, a New York village of 35,000 Hasidic Jews roughly an hour’s drive from Manhattan, began hearing about a promising treatment for the coronavirus that had been rippling through their community. The source was Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, 46, a mild-mannered family doctor with offices near the village. Since early […]
SOURCE: Detroit Metro Times After being accused of “banning” the use of a potential coronavirus drug, Michigan is now leading the nation’s largest study on whether hydroxychloroquine can be used to treat COVID-19. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was asked about the new study of the drug, announced by Henry Ford Health System on Thursday, during a coronavirus town […]
Promising Hyroxychloroquine results coming out of the US. Watch this interview from Dr Oz with Dr Jeff Colyer.
Source: Katu PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) – A local veteran is celebrating two big milestones this week. Not only is he turning 104, but he’s also celebrating his recovery from coronavirus. William Lapschies lives at the Edward C. Allworth Oregon Veterans’ Home in Lebanon. He was one of at least 15 residents to tested positive for the […]
An international poll of thousands of doctors rated the Trump-touted anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine the best treatment for the novel coronavirus. Of the 2,171 physicians surveyed, 37 percent rated hydroxychloroquine the “most effective therapy” for combating the potentially deadly illness, according to the results released Thursday. The survey, conducted by the global health care polling company Sermo, also found that […]
As with many infectious epidemics, household contacts, first responders, care givers, and medical personnel attending to persons with COVID-19 have a high risk of infection. PEP is defined as taking antimicrobial medication after potential exposure to an infectious agent to prevent becoming infected. The COVID-19 PEP Study is trying to answer: does hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) work […]
SOURCE: Metro Times, FDA Gov. Gretchen Whitmer drew fire from some on the right after the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) sent a letter last week threatening “administrative action” against doctors who prescribed two experimental drugs that could potentially help coronavirus patients. The Whitmer administration has since removed the language threatening doctors […]
According to the largest pharmacists association in the USA, pharmacists overwhelmingly disagree with recent actions by some states to limit the dispensing of a well-established malaria drug as a possible treatment for COVID-19 disease. COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which was initially detected in China during 2019. According to a new survey distributed […]
Twitter removed a tweet from Fox New host Laura Ingraham that suggested hospitals using hydroxychloroquine as treatment for the Wuhan coronavirus are showing promising results, despite the FDA’s approval of the drug for emergency use. “Lenox Hill in New York among many hospitals already using hydroxychloroquine with very promising results. One patient was described as ‘Lazarus’ who […]
Source: Fox 2 Detroit A Macomb County patient was recently given a drug typically used for malaria that is showing positive results for beating COVID-19. Jim Santilli said it helped him and he believes it could help others, too. “I was struggling to breathe. I felt like I was slowly drowning and I was sitting […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of two anti-malaria drugs to treat patients infected by the new coronavirus. On Sunday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a statement that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine could be prescribed to teens and adults with COVID-19 “as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or […]
FDA issued emergency authorization of Hydroxychloroquine treatment for COVID-19 patients in the USA. A global survey found that anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine was the most highly-rated treatment against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This new survey completed by Sermo on March 27, 2020, reported 6,227 physicians in 30 countries found that 37 percent of those treating […]
A patient at the Amiens University Hospital who presented symptoms of the Covid-19 coronavirus was administered hydroxychloroquine-based treatment.
Source: Instagram American actor Daniel Dae Kim’s shares his recovery from Covid-19 story, and it includes hydroxychloroquine. “…and here’s what I consider to be the secret weapon. Hydroxychloroquine. This is a common anti-malarial drug that has been used with great success in Korea in their fight against coronavirus. “Add my name to those personal accounts, […]
Source: MSN Some WWLTV viewers have heard that some treatments in other countries may be helping people with COVID-19. WWLTV’s medical reporter Meg Farris wanted to see if those treatments were available to hospital patients in the New Orleans area. After President Trump’s announcement Thursday about promising treatments for COVID-19 we wanted to see what […]
MANALAPAN, NJ — Margaret Novins, 53, is currently resting at her Manalapan home after she survived having covid-19/coronavirus. Novins was discharged Wednesday from CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, where she has been hospitalized for the past ten days. CentraState is the same hospital where four members of one single family, the Fuscos, died of the virus […]
To increase the effectiveness of treatments and results, researchers need to give greater focus, when designing trials and when extrapolating from them.
Scientific evidence also supports the use of CQ and HCQ in the treatment of cancer.
HCQ reduces lipopolysaccharide/TLR-mediated immune activation; this compound could be a useful immunomodulant in HIV-infected patients.
This suggests that intracellular Zn2+ levels affect a common step in the replicative cycle of these viruses.
Source: PLOS Pathogens Author: Aartjan J. W. te Velthuis,Sjoerd H. E. van den Worm,Amy C. Sims,Ralph S. Baric,Eric J. Snijder ,Martijn J. van Hemert Abstract Increasing the intracellular Zn2+ concentration with zinc-ionophores like pyrithione (PT) can efficiently impair the replication of a variety of RNA viruses, including poliovirus and influenza virus. For some viruses this effect has […]
Source: PubMed.com Abstract Exposure of influenza B virus-infected MDCK cells to chloroquine at the time of infection resulted in significant inhibition of infection. The appearance of input virus in the intracellular vesicles was not affected in the presence of the drug, but primary transcription of the virus genome did not occur. Chloroquine caused a rapid […]