Could This Be The Cure? Researchers Claim Two Existing Drugs Could ‘Cure’ COVID-19 After Patients They Tested Responded ‘Very Well’ To Treatment
John V.
Posted On March 16, 2020
According to scientists from Australia drugs used to treat HIV and malaria could be the cure for the deadly coronavirus!
The University of Queensland in Brisbane claims that Chloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, and HIV-suppressing combination lopinavir/ritonavir have both reportedly shown promising results in human tests and made the virus ‘disappear’ in infected patients.
Queensland researcher, Professor David Paterson, said he hopes to enrol people in larger scale pharmaceutical trials by the end of the month. He also said it wouldn’t be wrong to consider the drugs a possible ‘treatment or cure’ for the deadly respiratory infection.
Although the treatment had been effective in a smattering of cases, there hasn’t been any controlled testing like what would be needed to test a new drug, Professor Paterson said.
‘What we want to do at the moment is a large clinical trial across Australia, looking at 50 hospitals, and what we’re going to compare is one drug, versus another drug, versus the combination of the two drugs,’ Professor Paterson said.
Around 170,000 people across the globe have now been infected with the coronavirus and over 6,500 have died.
