Remdesivir is showing promise as a COVID-19 treatment.........

[MarathonMike]

Let's see what happens.

I know that a lot of doctors swear by Hydrochloroquine and a Z-pack and have shown great results. But because Trump recommended it the deranged left are determined to poo-poo its success. Crazy......

Personally, I am getting plenty of exercise, fresh air, and as much sunshine vitamin D as I can.

There are some doctors that are using hydrocholorquine and z packs to treat the disease, but they are having troubles getting the dosage to where it fights the virus, but doesn't stop your heart.

This new drug has far fewer complications to go along with it, and they aren't planning on using it unless a person is admitted to the hospital.

Fewer side effects means it's a better drug by the way.

It's way too early to proclaim this new drug has "far fewer complications" than hydroxychloroquine which has about a 40 year history of use with extremely low risk. You and other Trump haters just want to dismiss this highly effective treatment because it is associated with Trump. Why would anyone want to dismiss ANY treatment that is proving very effective with very little in the way of negative side effects?

You don't consider people's heart stopping as a negative? That's really not the way to increase your voting base.
Study of Trump-touted chloroquine for coronavirus stopped due to heart problems, deaths

Extremely low rate of occurrence and the risks to people with heart conditions is well understood since it has a 40 year usage history. Do you want to abandon it, and let people die waiting for this new unproven drug to be "proved safe"? And we all know that proved safe means understanding the side effects which will of course be there.

 

[lennypartiv]

We should all consume more CBD oil.

Or Trump's miracle drug.

 

[Zander]

Doctors all over the world are getting great results with Hydrochloroquine and Z-pack. The problem is - it is very inexpensive and......
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[Monk-Eye]

" Insider Trading By Congress Is Legal "

* Plutocracy Wagging The Dog *

Corona has already mutated at least twice since discovery. There is no cure for Corona.

The cure is to get the virus and develop immunity .

The government goal is to promote antibodies against the new method by which the virus evolves to enter the body rather than enabling the body to become resistant to the actual virus .

One is justified in buying into a conspiracy theory that governments are motivated for an ability to create a pandemic at will - Tried And True Methods Of Vaccination Pushed To The Side During The Coronavirus 19 Disease Outbreak .

Coronavirus: Are there two strains and is one more deadly?

Researchers in China say there are two strains of the new coronavirus, one of which is more aggressive – but the World Health Organization says the virus is stable

www.newscientist.com

When Xiaolu Tang at Peking University in Beijing and colleagues studied the viral genome taken from 103 cases, they found common mutations at two locations on the genome. The team identified two types of the virus based on differences in the genome at these two regions: 72 were considered to be the “L-type” and 29 were classed “S-type”.

The differences between the two identified strains are tiny. In fact, they can’t really be considered to be separate “strains”, says Jones. And many of the genetic differences won’t affect the production of proteins, and so won’t change the way the virus works, or the symptoms it causes, he says. One is not more deadly than the other.

“In all practical terms, the virus is as it was when it originally emerged,” says Jones. “There’s no evidence it is getting any worse.” The sentiment is echoed by the World Health Organization. The study by Tang and colleagues only suggests there is some genetic diversity of the virus – it doesn’t mean it is changing, a representative told New Scientist.

Human Coronavirus Types | CDC

CDC Human Coronavirus Types: Information about the six types of coronaviruses including MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV.

www.cdc.gov

Human Coronavirus Types
Coronaviruses are named for the crown-like spikes on their surface. There are four main sub-groupings of coronaviruses, known as alpha, beta, gamma, and delta.
Human coronaviruses were first identified in the mid-1960s. The seven coronaviruses that can infect people are:

Common human coronaviruses

1. 229E (alpha coronavirus)
2. NL63 (alpha coronavirus)
3. OC43 (beta coronavirus)
4. HKU1 (beta coronavirus)

Other human coronaviruses

1. MERS-CoV (the beta coronavirus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS)
2. SARS-CoV (the beta coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS)
3. SARS-CoV-2 (the novel coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19)

People around the world commonly get infected with human coronaviruses 229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1.
Sometimes coronaviruses that infect animals can evolve and make people sick and become a new human coronavirus. Three recent examples of this are 2019-nCoV, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV.

Immunogenicity, safety, and protective efficacy of an inactivated SARS-associated coronavirus vaccine in rhesus monkeys - PubMed

An inactivated vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) was evaluated in rhesus monkeys. The monkeys were inoculated intramuscularly (i.m.) with 0.5, 5, 50, or 5000 microg of vaccine, or PBS as control, and boosted on day 7. After 3 weeks, they were...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

An inactivated vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) was evaluated in rhesus monkeys. The monkeys were inoculated intramuscularly (i.m.) with 0.5, 5, 50, or 5000 microg of vaccine, or PBS as control, and boosted on day 7. After 3 weeks, they were challenged with the NS-1 strain of SARS-CoV. ... No systematic side effects were observed in vaccinated animals post-immunization, even in at the high dose of 5000 microg. The 50 microg dosage of vaccine elicited SARS-CoV specific immune responses against viral infection as compared to the partial immunity elicited by 0.5 and 5 microg doses. The results show that this inactivated vaccine can induce effective concomitant humoral and mucosal immunity against SARS-CoV infection, is safe in monkeys, and the vaccine maybe a good candidate for clinical trials.