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Two Australian scientists believe they have found the cure for coronavirus
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By Charlie De Biase Jr. | [email protected]
Two scientists from Australia say they have found a cure for coronavirus, according to the Daily Mail.
The researchers at the University of Queensland in Brisbane revealed that drugs used for HIV and malaria patients are working on experimental patients with COVID-19 infections and it seems to be wiping out the virus in those patients.
The two drugs are Chloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, and HIV-suppressing combination lopinavir/ritonavir.
The scientists caution that it’s early in the findings.
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The coronavirus has infected more than 189,000 people around the world with more than 7,500 dying.
One of the researchers is Professor David Paterson, who hopes to enroll more people in larger pharmaceutical trials by the end of the month.
'It’s a potentially effective treatment," he said. “Patients would end up with no viable coronavirus in their system at all after the end of the therapy.”
The treatment has worked in a smattering of cases, but more controlled testing would be needed to see if the drugs are in fact game-changers in finding a cure.
“That first wave of Chinese patients we had (in Australia), they all did very, very well when they were treated with the HIV drug,” Professor Paterson said. “What we want to do at the moment is a large clinical trial across Australia, looking at 50 hospitals, and what we’re going to compare is one drug, versus another drug, versus the combination of the two drugs.”
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Today 7:41 PM
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Photos: The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in New York
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By Charlie De Biase Jr. | [email protected]
Two scientists from Australia say they have found a cure for coronavirus, according to the Daily Mail.
The researchers at the University of Queensland in Brisbane revealed that drugs used for HIV and malaria patients are working on experimental patients with COVID-19 infections and it seems to be wiping out the virus in those patients.
The two drugs are Chloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, and HIV-suppressing combination lopinavir/ritonavir.
The scientists caution that it’s early in the findings.
*** CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE COVERAGE OF CORONAVIRUS IN NEW YORK ***
The coronavirus has infected more than 189,000 people around the world with more than 7,500 dying.
One of the researchers is Professor David Paterson, who hopes to enroll more people in larger pharmaceutical trials by the end of the month.
'It’s a potentially effective treatment," he said. “Patients would end up with no viable coronavirus in their system at all after the end of the therapy.”
The treatment has worked in a smattering of cases, but more controlled testing would be needed to see if the drugs are in fact game-changers in finding a cure.
“That first wave of Chinese patients we had (in Australia), they all did very, very well when they were treated with the HIV drug,” Professor Paterson said. “What we want to do at the moment is a large clinical trial across Australia, looking at 50 hospitals, and what we’re going to compare is one drug, versus another drug, versus the combination of the two drugs.”
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