There’s an enormous range of treatments being suggested for #COVID19 from hydroxychloroquine to blood pressure drugs to sheep dip. Dr @normanswan. #abc730 #coronavirusaustralia
There are broadly three approaches to treatment. One is to dampen the life-threatening immune overreaction. The second is to try to strengthen our resistance to the virus. And the third is to find a drug which kills the virus or stops it multiplying. @normanswan. #abc730 #COVID19
The frontrunner in the race is a drug made by the pharmaceutical company, Gilead, which has made a fortune from its suite of antiviral drugs for HIV and hepatitis C. The COVID-19 candidate is called remdesivir. @normanswan. #abc730 #coronavirusaustralia
“It basically prevents the virus making copies of its own genetic material. And as a result, then the virus can replicate, it can't then infect more human cells. It stops the replication of the virus.” Dr Paul Slade @GileadSciences. #abc730 #COVID19 #coronavirus
“We know that it works in the laboratory against other members of the same family of viruses as this #coronavirus, so we believe, especially in this time of pandemic health crisis, that it’s worth exploring whether it has activity against.” Dr Paul Slade @GileadSciences. #abc730
“In the state of pandemic, we really, really have to hang on to our scientific principles of rigorous controlled clinical trials. And we can't abandon those scientific principles on the assumption that we don't have time to wait.” @HollyLynchez #abc730 #COVID19 #coronavirus
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