‘Watershed moment:” Chicagoans among first
to test promising treatment for COVID-19
WGN-TV (Chicago),
by
Dina Bair
&
Katharin Czink
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
4/1/2020 8:23:51 AM
A drug doctors have mentioned repeatedly as a possible therapy for COVID-19 holds out hope for reducing severity and duration of symptoms.
And now Chicagoans will be first in line to test it.
Inside the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, an IV drip and a drug are a step toward a treatment for COVID-19.
Northwestern Medicine Infectious Disease Physician Dr Babafemi Taiwo called it “a watershed moment.”(Snip) a clinical trial to test Remdesivir, an anti-viral medication that was initially developed for Ebola patients. It is known to be active against other forms of coronavirus including SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Historybuff 4/1/2020 8:29:08 AM (No. 364755)
Somewhere in this poorly written story is the name of the treatment. . . oh there it is, near the bottom!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
seamusm 4/1/2020 8:32:22 AM (No. 364757)
I really hope that Hydrochloroquine/Azithro/Zinc works because it would really be way less expensive than any newer anti-viral.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Clinger 4/1/2020 8:50:22 AM (No. 364772)
We may not be past the time to stop experimenting, but at some point we need to run like mad with a good solution and avoid allowing a quest for a great or perfect solution to stand in the way while people die.
When I hear that we have a 100% success rate with hundreds of patients (still a small sample given the scope) repeated by different doctors in different countries with Hydroxycloriquine and Z-pac I wonder why we would let anybody be part of a control group getting nothing to prove some alternate treatment.
Are we letting people die while some Dr. is on a quest for his share of the fame?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyHen 4/1/2020 9:45:58 AM (No. 364840)
#3 You are not the only one that thinks this is not the time to play Russian Roulette with patients lives, forcing some into a month long blind control study to satisfy peacetime science. Doctors should be using war time "save people now!!" triage field hospital logic now not "I've got all the time in the world" laboratory logic. India is using prophylactic hydroxychloroquine on medical personel. Hospitals in Italy and France are using it in combination with zpack for those in the early stages of the disease to prevent its progression into the later deadly stage. In the end, the glacial nature of our medical bureaucrats and their plodding, hemming, hawing, and general hatred for President Trump will kill thousands.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/1/2020 9:58:54 AM (No. 364858)
Sounds promising since COVID-19 seems to be a cousin to Ebola in some of its symptoms. Now let's see how much resistance that Baby Huey Pritzker and light-in-the-sandals Lightfoot can build up against using it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
john56 4/1/2020 10:01:19 AM (No. 364861)
The success of the trial will be if the recipents wise up and move away from their crooked Chicago politicians and liberal lunacy.
I still have this on my bucket list for the remainder of my life: Never set foot in Chicago again, including airports (and PS ... Da Bears still stink.)
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
hershey 4/1/2020 10:07:42 AM (No. 364872)
Don't we have ANY American doctors any more???
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HCQ and Zpack are running into resistance for two reasons:
1. They're generic and thus no big money to be made
2. Trump was one of the first to note they work.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Skeptical1 4/1/2020 12:44:11 PM (No. 365101)
I have a feeling that none of these investigational drugs just "work", the way, say, Cipro clears up a UTI. If Chloroquine is so effective, for example, why are people dying in New York? It seems more likely that these drugs have a statistical effect that improves outcomes for some percentage of patients. If that's true, then you need a formal study so that, going forward, people can choose the drug most likely help them. And in reality, it takes many such studies by different researchers to get that figured out. In the meantime, nobody has to enroll in a trial to get Chloroquine.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
KTWO 4/1/2020 2:06:10 PM (No. 365198)
After three months there will be a clinical trial of an existing and available drug?
Granted, in January it was China that should have been running such trials and sharing results. But what stopped South Korea and Japan. The disease went there after China.
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