Corona virus treatment When do we get a drug for people with epidemic?
Over 250,000 people have died from Covid-19 disease, caused by the Coronavirus. There are no drugs or drugs yet to help doctors treat the injured.
When if we get drugs that can save patients ’lives?
What is the research being done to produce effective treatments?
More than 150 different drugs, most of which are drugs already used to treat other diseases, are being researched around the world to test their potential for use against the Corona virus.
The World Health Organization has launched a testing program, called "Solidarity", that aims to evaluate the most promising treatments.
The UK says its "recovery" testing program is the largest in the world, with more than 5,000 patients involved.
Research centers around the world are also trying to use the blood of the infected as a method to treat the Corona virus.
The research is conducted in three general categories:
Antiviral drugs directly attack the ability of the Coronavirus to reproduce within the body.
Medicines that can calm the immune system, as the patient's condition worsens seriously when the immune system reacts excessively to the virus, which causes side effects in various body systems.
Antibodies - taken from the survivors' blood or made in the laboratory - that can attack the virus.
What is the most promising drug against Corona virus?
The latest clinical tests for the use of remdesivir, which was originally produced for the treatment of people with Ebola, were somewhat encouraging.
The American National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has found that the remediffer drug shortens the duration of a patient's symptoms from 15 to 11 days. 1,063 people participated in research conducted by the institute in hospitals in different countries, some of whom were given the drug while others were given a placebo.
The director of the institute, doctor Anthony Fauci, said that the drug Remedisfer "has a clear, important and positive effect in shortening the recovery period."
However, although remediffer may help to identify patients - and may even prevent patients from entering intensive care units - tests have shown no signs of being able to prevent coronavirus deaths.
Antiviral drugs are believed to be more effective in the early stages of infection, while immune drugs are more effective in subsequent stages.
Remedivifer is one of four drugs involved in "solidarity" tests launched by the World Health Organization. And the company that produces it - Gilead Company - is also testing it.
And published American information about the drug Remdisever at the same time that showed experiments conducted in China - and the results of the medical journal "Lancet" published - ineffective.
However, the Chinese study was not complete because the success of the closure procedures in Wuhan left no doctors for the patients to test.
Can anti-HIV drugs be used to treat SK patients?
There has been much, but little evidence, that two drugs used to treat people with HIV, lopinavir and ritonavir, may be effective in treating infection with the Corona virus.
While there is much evidence of efficacy under laboratory conditions, human tests have been disappointing.
The use of the two drugs did not improve the chances of recovery, did not reduce deaths and did not reduce the proportion of the virus in patients with Covid-19.
However, since the test was performed on patients with very serious conditions (about a quarter of them died), the use of the two drugs may have come too late.
Can malaria drugs stop the Corona virus?
Anti-malarial parasites are among those participating in the mentioned "solidarity" and "recovery" tests.
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine may have the ability to fight viruses and calm the immune system.
These two drugs have been highlighted as possible treatments for the Corona virus thanks to allegations made by US President Donald Trump, but there is little evidence of their efficacy.
Hydroxychloroquine is also used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis because of its property in helping to regulate the immune system.
Laboratory experiments have demonstrated its ability to inhibit the Corona virus, and there is undocumented evidence from doctors that it may help in the treatment of Corona virus patients.
But the WHO says there is no firm evidence for its efficacy.
What about immune drugs?
If the immune system responds to the virus excessively, this may lead to infections throughout the body. This may be useful in sharpening the immune system and directing it to fight the virus, but if it is over the limit it may cause many side effects and may be fatal.
"Solidarity" tests include research on interferon beta, a substance used in the treatment of people with multiple sclerosis, whose properties are to reduce the severity of infections. It is reported that interferons are a group of chemicals that the body secretes when exposed to a viral invasion.
In Britain, "recovery" tests also include the study of dexamethasone, a type of steroids (such as cortisone) used to reduce inflammation.
Can the blood of survivors be used in the treatment of people infected with the Coronavirus?
Survivors of the disease are supposed to have antibodies in their blood that can attack the virus.
The idea is to take blood plasma (the part that contains antibodies) and inject it into the patient as a treatment for the disease.
The United States has already treated 500 patients with what it calls "convalescence plasma." Other countries followed the example of the United States.
How long will it take to get treatment?
It is too early to say with a date when a useful drug for Coronavirus will be in our hands.
But we will get the first results of the test
Corona virus treatment When do we get a drug for people with epidemic?
Over 250,000 people have died from Covid-19 disease, caused by the Coronavirus. There are no drugs or drugs yet to help doctors treat the injured.
When if we get drugs that can save patients ’lives?
What is the research being done to produce effective treatments?
More than 150 different drugs, most of which are drugs already used to treat other diseases, are being researched around the world to test their potential for use against the Corona virus.
The World Health Organization has launched a testing program, called "Solidarity", that aims to evaluate the most promising treatments.
The UK says its "recovery" testing program is the largest in the world, with more than 5,000 patients involved.
Research centers around the world are also trying to use the blood of the infected as a method to treat the Corona virus.
The research is conducted in three general categories:
Antiviral drugs directly attack the ability of the Coronavirus to reproduce within the body.
Medicines that can calm the immune system, as the patient's condition worsens seriously when the immune system reacts excessively to the virus, which causes side effects in various body systems.
Antibodies - taken from the survivors' blood or made in the laboratory - that can attack the virus.
What is the most promising drug against Corona virus?
The latest clinical tests for the use of remdesivir, which was originally produced for the treatment of people with Ebola, were somewhat encouraging.
The American National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has found that the remediffer drug shortens the duration of a patient's symptoms from 15 to 11 days. 1,063 people participated in research conducted by the institute in hospitals in different countries, some of whom were given the drug while others were given a placebo.
The director of the institute, doctor Anthony Fauci, said that the drug Remedisfer "has a clear, important and positive effect in shortening the recovery period."
However, although remediffer may help to identify patients - and may even prevent patients from entering intensive care units - tests have shown no signs of being able to prevent coronavirus deaths.
Antiviral drugs are believed to be more effective in the early stages of infection, while immune drugs are more effective in subsequent stages.
Remedivifer is one of four drugs involved in "solidarity" tests launched by the World Health Organization. And the company that produces it - Gilead Company - is also testing it.
And published American information about the drug Remdisever at the same time that showed experiments conducted in China - and the results of the medical journal "Lancet" published - ineffective.
However, the Chinese study was not complete because the success of the closure procedures in Wuhan left no doctors for the patients to test.
Can anti-HIV drugs be used to treat SK patients?
There has been much, but little evidence, that two drugs used to treat people with HIV, lopinavir and ritonavir, may be effective in treating infection with the Corona virus.
While there is much evidence of efficacy under laboratory conditions, human tests have been disappointing.
The use of the two drugs did not improve the chances of recovery, did not reduce deaths and did not reduce the proportion of the virus in patients with Covid-19.
However, since the test was performed on patients with very serious conditions (about a quarter of them died), the use of the two drugs may have come too late.
Can malaria drugs stop the Corona virus?
Anti-malarial parasites are among those participating in the mentioned "solidarity" and "recovery" tests.
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine may have the ability to fight viruses and calm the immune system.
These two drugs have been highlighted as possible treatments for the Corona virus thanks to allegations made by US President Donald Trump, but there is little evidence of their efficacy.
Hydroxychloroquine is also used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis because of its property in helping to regulate the immune system.
Laboratory experiments have demonstrated its ability to inhibit the Corona virus, and there is undocumented evidence from doctors that it may help in the treatment of Corona virus patients.
But the WHO says there is no firm evidence for its efficacy.
What about immune drugs?
If the immune system responds to the virus excessively, this may lead to infections throughout the body. This may be useful in sharpening the immune system and directing it to fight the virus, but if it is over the limit it may cause many side effects and may be fatal.
"Solidarity" tests include research on interferon beta, a substance used in the treatment of people with multiple sclerosis, whose properties are to reduce the severity of infections. It is reported that interferons are a group of chemicals that the body secretes when exposed to a viral invasion.
In Britain, "recovery" tests also include the study of dexamethasone, a type of steroids (such as cortisone) used to reduce inflammation.
Can the blood of survivors be used in the treatment of people infected with the Coronavirus?
Survivors of the disease are supposed to have antibodies in their blood that can attack the virus.
The idea is to take blood plasma (the part that contains antibodies) and inject it into the patient as a treatment for the disease.
The United States has already treated 500 patients with what it calls "convalescence plasma." Other countries followed the example of the United States.
How long will it take to get treatment?
It is too early to say with a date when a useful drug for Coronavirus will be in our hands.
But we will get the first results of the test
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