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Thread #167208   Message #4040619
Posted By: Helen
19-Mar-20 - 01:43 AM
Thread Name: BS: New rules for the coming pandemic
Subject: RE: BS: New rules for the coming pandemic
mg, I just read this in an ABC New (Aust) article about the study on an older HIV drug and chloroquine:

Could existing drugs treat COVID-19 infections?

"Early signs are promising, after Australian researchers this week revealed they are ready to begin clinical trials of a potential treatment for COVID-19 — using two existing drugs.

"The drugs in question are an older HIV drug and an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine, which is rarely used now as the malaria pathogen has become resistant to it.

"'There's certainly positive signals either this HIV drug or this anti-malaria drug actually work really well against COVID-19,' David Paterson, director of the Centre for Clinical Research at the University of Queensland, told The Project.

"'There's certainly positive signals either this HIV drug or this anti-malaria drug actually work really well against COVID-19', David Paterson, director of the Centre for Clinical Research at the University of Queensland, told The Project."