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Japanese treatment (Original Post) evertonfc Mar 2020 OP
I've heard about a couple treatments. defacto7 Mar 2020 #1
Avigan intrepidity Mar 2020 #2

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
1. I've heard about a couple treatments.
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 07:02 PM
Mar 2020

Australia and Cuba both claim treatments that are supposedly very successful.

I'm still watching and hoping.

intrepidity

(7,750 posts)
2. Avigan
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 07:04 PM
Mar 2020
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13120234

and showing it wasn't born yesterday:

https://www.bioworld.com/articles/433290-fujifilm-stock-rises-as-japan-considers-avigan-for-covid-19-treatment

In October 2014, a French nurse with Ebola virus who was treated with a combination of Avigan and other drugs recovered. Fujifilm said that information was relayed to the Tokyo-based company by the French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Safety.

The French Institute of Health and Medical Research then carried out a clinical trial on Avigan’s efficacy as a treatment for EVD at four medical institutes in Guinea from December 2014 to May 2015. Based on the trial results, the Guinean government adopted Avigan tablet administration as part of a treatment regimen for EVD.
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