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John C. Menzies
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John is an entrepreneur-geologist - Geology is the Planetary Science. https://t.co/olBf451Bnw
Apr 13, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
#COVID19 Study results IHU Méditerranée Infection. 1061 COVID19 patients treated for at least 3 days starting immediately after diagnosis with #Hydroxychloroquine and #azithromyacin 98% cured 0.47% died, rest remain in hospital. ..study was performed at IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France. A cohort of 1061 #COVID-19 patients, treated for at least 3 days with the HCQ-AZ combination and a follow-up of at least 9 days was investigated. Endpoints were death, worsening and viral shedding persistence
Mar 29, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
#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… For the antiviral treatment, the doctors recommended lopinavir 400mg/ritonavir 100mg (Kaletra two tablets, twice a day) or #chloroquine 500mg orally per day.
Mar 29, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Another Paper (2014): #Chloroquine is an established antimalarial agent that has been recently tested in clinical trials for its anticancer activity. #Covid_19

journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… The favorable effect of chloroquine appears to be due to its ability to sensitize cancerous cells to chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and induce apoptosis.
Mar 29, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Another Paper: Here we found that treating the patients diagnosed as novel coronavirus pneumonia with chloroquine might improve the success rate of treatment, shorten hospital stay and improve patient outcome.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3207536… It recommended chloroquine phosphate tablet, 500mg twice per day for 10 days for patients diagnosed as mild, moderate and severe cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia and without contraindications to chloroquine.
Mar 28, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Another paper on positive results of #Chloroquine-Azithromycin intervention in #Covid_19 patients. Impressive results and reduction in viral load and early discharge! mediterranee-infection.com/pre-prints-ihu/ Three in vitro studies have demonstrated that chloroquine phosphate inhibits SARS-CoV-2 (8;9) and two have demonstrated that hydroxychloroquine sulfate inhibits SARS-CoV-2 (8-10).