This is not a cure. Just a treatment. It does not work like an antibiotic or retroviral. It impairs viral reproduction and lowers immune response damage.
Preliminarily: a hell of a lot better than nothing, cheap, quick to produce and distribute. Sounds like a great stop-gap until more findings are available, or a vaccine is released.
Raoult clearly used the word "cure" - he's got pretty good credentials. You, on the other hand, are glib, but use words without knowing what they mean. "Retroviral" is a not a class of drug. I think I'll take him more seriously.
That was supposed to say ANTI retroviral. Specifically a category of drugs targeting RNA viruses like this corona virus and HIV virus. Which is another one of the many drugs touted as a potential useful treatment.
Cures are very specific in that they are singular elements that completely alleviate the ailment. Treatments are supportive in that they reduce the damage of the disease and allow for the body to heal but still require additional support.
But if you don't want to listen to me. Listen to Dr Didier Raoult:
"with the drug chloroquine had seen a rapid and effective speeding up of their healing process, and a sharp decrease in the amount of time they remained contagious"
Because "Raoult said those who did not receive the drug were still contagious after six days. Those who tried the drug were only 25% contagious, though"
In other words the virus was not entirely eliminated through use of the drug therefore NOT a cure. But a treatment I have been defending since the first hints of it being a treatment came out back in February.
This is not a cure. Just a treatment. It does not work like an antibiotic or retroviral. It impairs viral reproduction and lowers immune response damage.
Vaccine being put through phase 1 trial already.
Preliminarily: a hell of a lot better than nothing, cheap, quick to produce and distribute. Sounds like a great stop-gap until more findings are available, or a vaccine is released.
Raoult clearly used the word "cure" - he's got pretty good credentials. You, on the other hand, are glib, but use words without knowing what they mean. "Retroviral" is a not a class of drug. I think I'll take him more seriously.
That was supposed to say ANTI retroviral. Specifically a category of drugs targeting RNA viruses like this corona virus and HIV virus. Which is another one of the many drugs touted as a potential useful treatment.
Cures are very specific in that they are singular elements that completely alleviate the ailment. Treatments are supportive in that they reduce the damage of the disease and allow for the body to heal but still require additional support.
But if you don't want to listen to me. Listen to Dr Didier Raoult:
"with the drug chloroquine had seen a rapid and effective speeding up of their healing process, and a sharp decrease in the amount of time they remained contagious"
Because "Raoult said those who did not receive the drug were still contagious after six days. Those who tried the drug were only 25% contagious, though"
In other words the virus was not entirely eliminated through use of the drug therefore NOT a cure. But a treatment I have been defending since the first hints of it being a treatment came out back in February.