Understood.Start thinking 18 months at best. And even then essential workers will be prioritized. It's not something to even start pinning any hope on now.
Understood.
What about the potential of the anti viral drugs that doctors have been mentioning which might assist as a treatment, do they have to go through the full set of 18 month delay and trials also?
So there is, and we both posted on it already, silly me.No, and there's a thread on that already.
If Trump gets his tiny mobster hands on the vaccine first we are all fucked.The sooner the better (obvs).
Trump has also announced that he has cut as much red tape as possible to get a vaccine out at the earliest.
If Trump gets his tiny mobster hands on the vaccine first we are all fucked.
Abstract
The efficacy of several povidone-iodine (PVP-I) products, a number of other chemical agents and various physical conditions were evaluated for their ability to inactivate the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Treatment of SARS-CoV with PVP-I products for 2 min reduced the virus infectivity from 1.17 × 106 TCID50/ml to below the detectable level. The efficacy of 70% ethanol was equivalent to that of PVP-I products. Fixation of SARS-CoV-infected Vero E6 cells with a fixative including formalin, glutaraldehyde, methanol and acetone for 5 min or longer eliminated all infectivity. Heating the virus at 56°C for 60 min or longer reduced the infectivity of the virus from 2.6 × 107 to undetectable levels. Irradiation with ultraviolet light at 134 µW/cm2 for 15 min reduced the infectivity from 3.8 × 107 to 180 TCID50/ml; however, prolonged irradiation (60 min) failed to eliminate the remaining virus, leaving 18.8 TCID50/ml.
© 2006 S. Karger AG, Basel
Start thinking 18 months at best. And even then essential workers will be prioritized. It's not something to even start pinning any hope on now.
A team of Australian researchers say they've found a cure for the novel coronavirus and hope to have patients enrolled in a nationwide trial by the end of the month.
University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research director Professor David Paterson told news.com.au today they have seen two drugs used to treat other conditions can wipe out the virus in test tubes.
He said one of the medications, given to some of the first people to test positive for COVID-19 in Australia, had already resulted in "disappearance of the virus" and complete recovery from the infection.
Prof Paterson, who is also an infectious disease physician at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, said it wasn't a stretch to label the drugs "a treatment or a cure".
"It's a potentially effective treatment," he said.
"Patients would end up with no viable coronavirus in their system at all after the end of therapy."
I don't need your permission to start a thread on anything. There's no definitive promises here, just news on developments. Kindly take your aggressiveness elsewhere.
I'll mergeNo, and there's a thread on that already.
Possible vaccines/treatment(s) for Coronavirus
A thread for hopefully positive news on the fight back against this coronavirus. I remember Chris Whitty, England's Chief Medical Officer, mentioning some exiting antiviral drugs could be effective in treatment of this coronavirus, and there are three particular ones that could be good...www.urban75.net
Why are you ignoring there's already a thread discussing these things?
Thank you -and I will be trying your suggestions for my cough.Okay.
So.
Here goes...
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China tried corticosteroids on a bunch of early patients, with the usual results - they were shit, and the advice is not to use them.
I may have gone a little overboard with this answer, lack time to give a more nuanced one with appropriate links.
KR suggested that as an intensivist, outside of a clinical trial, he would only recommend the use of steroids in patients with novel coronavirus if there was another indication, such as septic shock or an exacerbation of COPD. WS agreed that it was not wise to use steroids in a viral infection if there was nothing in place to combat the virus itself. PO would not recommend as routine but that steroids should be evaluated in the context of a clinical trial.
China tried corticosteroids on a bunch of early patients, with the usual results - they were shit, and the advice is not to use them.
I may have gone a little overboard with this answer, lack time to give a more nuanced one with appropriate links.