#COVID19 Korean Treatment Guidelines
If patients are old or have underlying conditions with serious symptoms, physicians should consider an antiviral treatment.
koreabiomed.com/news/articleVi…
If patients are old or have underlying conditions with serious symptoms, physicians should consider an antiviral treatment.
koreabiomed.com/news/articleVi…
For the antiviral treatment, the doctors recommended lopinavir 400mg/ritonavir 100mg (Kaletra two tablets, twice a day) or #chloroquine 500mg orally per day.
As chloroquine is not available in Korea, doctors could consider hydroxychloroquine 400mg orally per day, they said. There is no evidence that using lopinavir/ritonavir with chloroquine is more effective than monotherapies, they added.
Combining lopinavir/ritonavir with chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine could cause serious arrhythmias and drug interactions due to the increased QT interval
I do rather wonder why there is disbelief of the Korean and Chinese experience with some jurisdictions banning the treatment guidelines - from the front lines.
Western Governments and bureaucrats had an abundance of time to prepare for Corona but many did very little, when pandemic was a clear risk in January. The reason:
Their time, energy and your moneys were consumed on hot topics, like #SocalJustice, #Transgender Rights and #climatechange. Now some of them want - global government! Once bitten..........
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