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by WilsonPaige 2288 days ago
Whoa! Put the flag down! If you look at my history in my profile you'll see that I _anticipated_ your questions about the chloroquine phosphate studies but now been provided enough information so that I do not doubt that chloroqine phosphate is a very good treatment (in conjunction with zinc).

Some links for Chloroquine phosphate:

"Breakthrough: Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of COVID-19 associated pneumonia in clinical studies":

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-02-13/fighting-co...

L.A.Times article with links (feel free to chase the links yourself) that gives more detail about the above paper cited:

"A more unorthodox remedy being tested against the coronavirus in China is chloroquine.

The drug is intended to treat malaria, a condition caused by a parasite transmitted through a mosquito bite. A limited number of studies suggest the drug can work against SARS. In laboratory tests, it kept COVID-19 from spreading by blocking its method of infecting cells, according to a report last week in the journal Cell Research."

The Chinese source re chloroquine, was posted on ycombinator by sp332 3 hours ago (I quote him below):

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/14/1/14_2020.01047/...

"This summarizes the results of a bunch of trials that were run in parallel in China."

You can do your own search for information on the effects of zinc on viruses and in particular corona viruses - it's old story (dating back to circa 1970s at least), the results have created a entire industry of zinc-related products (zicam et al).