Indeed. One of the reasons why viruses that escape from bats are so hard to control is because bats can regulate their own body temperatures and they routinely generate very high temperatures/a/k/a fevers just to kill off the bad stuff before they can get started. So any virus that has outsmarted that system is one smart sucker and difficult to manage. Not to beat this tylenol thing to death but it is important for people to remember than you can avoid liver damage by taking it within the approved and tested safety levels, particularly for relatively short periods of 2-3 weeks will be enough for much of the corona duration. The impact of acetominophen/sp on the liver is very easily measured by whether or not it whacks your liver enzymes - and there is no significant impact in the approved dosage range for short periods. Where people get into a problem is when they have a fever that will not come down and they start piling in lots and lots of tylenol. Dosage and timing are important. 4000 mgs spread out across the day is a safe limit. But 4000 mgs in just one shot because you want to bring that fever down, uh no. That is beyond what the liver can process in one shot.
Google Translate: Our two articles published this evening help to demonstrate: 1. The effectiveness of our protocol, on 80 patients. 2. The relevance of the association of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, thanks to research carried out in our P3 containment laboratory.
Yes, we've known for weeks now that hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin is being used as an experimental treatment. A link to said study and/or conclusions would've been nice. https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-IHU-2-1.pdf Abstract: We need an effective treatment to cure COVID-19 patients and to decrease the virus carriage duration. In 80 in-patients receiving a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin we noted a clinical improvement in all but one 86 year-old patient who died, and one 74 yearold patient still in intensive care unit. A rapid fall of nasopharyngeal viral load tested by qPCR was noted, with 83% negative at Day7, and 93% at Day8. Virus cultures from patient respiratory samples were negative in 97.5% patients at Day5. This allowed patients to rapidly de discharge from highly contagious wards with a mean length of stay of five days. We believe other teams should urgently evaluate this cost-effective therapeutic strategy, to both avoid the spread of the disease and treat patients as soon as possible before severe respiratory irreversible complications take hold. In any case....reads very promising.
no need, I hadn't seen the study myself, looks promising, hope results are repeatable elsewhere now that the treatment's deployed.
Efforts being done by other countries that USA doesn't do. 1. Temperature Checks of citizens by Police and Security 2. Thermal imaging at Airports 3. Troops mobilized to disinfect coronavirus hotspots 4. Tracking Bracelets to monitor active Coronavirus patients Without adopting tough measures, the crisis will kill millions
Looks like Iran finally flattened the curve at a hefty price (6.1% mortality). Will be interesting to see how we cope as ours climbs (2.6%):