WilsonPaige
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Comment · 6 years ago
A doctor can prescribe it. Best to take it under the supervision of a doctor.
Comment · 6 years ago
On Chloroquine phosphate:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550
DIY on zinc - There is an entire industry of antiviral zinc sprays, lozenges and pills. Zinc stops viral replication deader than your prefrontal lobes:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=zinc+halts+viral+replication&t=ope...
Like I said, we have herein a safe treatment that is cheap, available, and free of risk, namely
1. immediate zinc lozenge/spray/pill dissolved in mouth to be applied early (preferably first 3 days) of illness, and possibly every day thereafter +
2.Chloroquine phosphate (up to 500 mg/day).
Comment · 6 years 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.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/...
"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).
Comment · 6 years ago
Citations? That was precisely the doctor's objection - no citations, no facts, no data.
Comment · 6 years ago
Opposing statement by a Ghanian doctor and director of public health:
"Dr. Badu Sarkodie, the Director of Public Health, Ghana Health Service (GHS), says they have no evidence that Chloroquine Phosphate 250mg is an effective treatment of the flu-like coronavirus (COVID-19).
He was reacting to claims on social media that Chloroquine Phosphate 250mg had been found by French and Chinese doctors to be effective for treatment of the virus.
Dr. Sarkodie in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) said although the claim sounded promising, the GHS had not had any efficacy clinical trial to confirm that.
They could therefore not make any recommendation for the use of the drug to treat the virus.
"I cannot dispute the claim so the person saying this should provide more information because we have not sighted any publication to this effect," he added."