Vancouver Canada UBC researchers claim find of COVID-19 trial drug

X-Files · Apr 4, 2020

“There is hope for this horrible outbreak,” researcher says

University of British Columbia researchers say they have found a trial drug that blocks the cellular door the virus uses to infect people with COVID-19.

“There is hope for this horrible outbreak,” said UBC Life Sciences Institute director Dr. Josef Penninger.

https://www.burnabynow.com/ubc-researchers-claim-find-of-covid-19-trial-drug-1.24112818

slapshot · Apr 4, 2020

Nice

but Enfuego will not like this

hno:

cgarn · Apr 4, 2020

#TeamCanada

Ricboff · Apr 4, 2020

if effecitive, good for a target group - healthcare workers treating COVID patients.

they're going to need volunteers for the next step; take the drug, exposure to the virus and...... see what happens. Xfiles, you in?

X-Files · Apr 5, 2020

"First US coronavirus patients being treated with plasma therapy

Experimental treatment of coronavirus patients with plasma from recovered patients has begun in New York and Houston after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved such efforts.

The effectiveness of the treatment is unknown, but the FDA approved it as a treatment on March 24, giving researchers the option to request emergency authorization to test the procedure. Methodist Hospital in Houston began soliciting donors Friday, performing the first transfusions for a patient the next day.

The approach, known as convalescent plasma, echoes an approach used for both the 1918 flu pandemic and the 2002 SARS outbreak, and has shown promising early signs in the treatment of Chinese patients.

https://thehill.com/regulation/heal...us-patients-being-treated-with-plasma-therapy

Ricboff · Apr 5, 2020

pretty cool, xfiles, here's another on it

:103631605

Since March 28, at least 11 patients critically ill with COVID-19 at hospitals in New York City and Houston became the first in the United States to receive a promising experimental treatment. But the therapy, newly authorized for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, wasn’t concocted in a pharmaceutical laboratory. It came from the blood of other patients, those who have recovered from the coronavirus infection.
The treatment is convalescent plasma, the liquid component of blood taken from someone who has survived an infection, in this case COVID-19. With the United States now leading the world in confirmed cases of the disease — and no proven treatments yet — researchers here are racing to set up clinical trials to test how effective convalescent plasma is against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. If the treatment is beneficial, that could lead to FDA approval for wider use.
A vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 is at best more than year away (SN: 2/21/20). In trying to manage COVID-19 over the next several months, the question is, “what kind of treatments could we administer that could truncate this pandemic?” says pathologist John Roback of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, who does research on transfusion medicine. The top candidates are drugs already approved to treat diseases such as malaria that might be repurposed for COVID-19 (SN: 3/10/20) and convalescent plasma, he says.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-19-can-plasma-recovered-patients-treat-sick

THawk+ · Apr 5, 2020

SMH Why are they not using the simple, easy drug combo that has been used in many places already that has shown promise and has worked already plus there already was a study saying it was effective against corona virus in a 2005 study here in the U.S.

Makes not sense at all but in reality it does as with the experimental treatment drug companies will make money.
With Chloroquine/Z pak they do not pretty easy to see why they do not want to say it works

As in most cases K.I.S.S is usually the best solution

Ricboff · Apr 5, 2020

They r . The in vitro study u posted ? NY has started clinicals trials on pts about a week and a half ago. What exactly do yuo want them to do?

You seem very passionate on the topic. have you considered making some phone calls? You're in Boston, call a local hospital? see what they r doing

THawk+ · Apr 6, 2020

Ricboff said:
They r . The in vitro study u posted ? NY has started clinicals trials on pts about a week and a half ago. What exactly do yuo want them to do?

You seem very passionate on the topic. have you considered making some phone calls? You're in Boston, call a local hospital? see what they r doing

I have friends who work in the health care field here, I do talk with them.

Ricboff · Apr 6, 2020

and?

are they convinced the 2005 in vitro study u posted is sufficient ? is there any need for clinical trials at all in USA?

what are Boston hospitals doing? are they using the drug combos?

sharky99 · Apr 7, 2020

I like the plasma therapy concept

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