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2020-05-12 Science & Technology

Anti-viral drug cocktail shows success clearing COVID-19 in 'seven days'

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Anyone want to wager whether or not this is 100x as expensive as HCQ?

Posted by gorb 2020-05-12 01:05|| 2020-05-12 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 cocktail of three different anti-viral medications to patients enduring mild coronavirus symptoms "may rapidly suppress the amount of virus in a patient's body."

Expensive drugs, I assume?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-12 01:05|| 2020-05-12 01:05|| Front Page Top

#3 I've been undergoing a strict regime of gin & tonic. Seems to be working. No sign of Wu Flu. Or malaria.

Posted by SteveS 2020-05-12 01:06|| 2020-05-12 01:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Going to be more money spent on psych therapy for disappointed "forever quarantine" religionists than on the bug itself.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-12 10:20|| 2020-05-12 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 lopinavir-ritonavir typically $50-$200 per dose

ribavirin about $100 for a week

interferon beta about $100 a day

Posted by lord garth 2020-05-12 14:35|| 2020-05-12 14:35|| Front Page Top

#6 ^HCQ 5$ for entire treatment?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-12 14:42|| 2020-05-12 14:42|| Front Page Top

#7 yes for the HCQ cocktail

HCQ about $1 dose
zinc about 10cents dose
azithromycin about $2 dose

Posted by lord garth 2020-05-12 14:59|| 2020-05-12 14:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Clears in 6 days without it?

Posted by Glenmore 2020-05-12 21:07|| 2020-05-12 21:07|| Front Page Top

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