Re: <nettime> And there must be no bowing down - Today's Eleven

[Thomas Gramstad <thomas.gramstad@ub.uio.no>]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Patrice Riemens wrote:

> On 2020-03-23 20:57, John Hopkins wrote:

> > Cecile -- plz avoid editorializing on some of these links --
> > the following "now used against covid19" really is a huge
> > mis-statement. There is a tiny bit of anecdotal information
> > that chloroquine mitigates the virus' symptoms/effects... it is
> > *not* being 'used against'. There has been no clinical testing
> > on chloroquine/Covid19 that would meet minimum requirements from
> > any health/medical agency for safe use. *There is no 'cure' or
> > vaccine and will not be for many months!* Statements that support
> > a misplaced belief that there is a 'cure' available (such as Trump
> > has repeatedly made) are irresponsible.
>
> Actually the article specifies that the chloroquine is not a
> vaccine, but a medicine that - allegedly - slows down but does
> not kill the virus, in that is it combats infection. It has been
> included by the State Pharma agency in the provisory treatment plan
> against Covid since it had been administered with good results on
> patients in China.

What Patrice says is correct. Here in Norway chloroquine is
prescription only, and when the mitigation effect became known, many
medical doctors prescribed it for themselves and their families. But
now the government has stopped all commercial use of chloroquine,
saving all of it for hospital use, and has started conducting clinical
trials of it.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/who-launches-global-megatrial-four-most-promising-coronavirus-treatments

Best,

Thomas Gramstad



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