Plaquenil deemed "promising" for Covid-19

[Qutzupalotl]

Sanofi offers anti-malaria Plaquenil to treat 300,000 patients

The French laboratory Sanofi has said it is ready to offer the French authorities millions of doses of the anti-malarial Plaquenil, which can potentially treat 300,000 patients, after tests deemed "promising" in patients with Covid-19.

In view of a study with encouraging results carried out on this molecule, "Sanofi undertakes to make its treatment available to France and to offer several million doses which could make it possible to treat 300,000 patients", indicated to the AFP Tuesday a spokesperson for the laboratory, while specifying that the group is ready to work with French health authorities "to confirm these results".

https://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2020/03/17/01008-20200317LIVWWW00001-en-direct-coronavirus-confinement-mesures-ecoles-hopitaux-Macron-annonces-elections-municipales-report-patients-contamines-covid-19.php


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[CousinIT]

1. I suspect when/if a vaccine is found, Trump will withhold it from the US

Except for himself and the billionaires and CEOs, while he tries to figure out a way to profit from it, buy the company, or get Jared into business with it so he can profit from it or some such.

Then when he finds he can't make some smarmy deal, he'll let only certain people have it, while pretending that it's scarce and thus must be rationed, and the sickest and oldest should just die while the richest, whitest and youngest get the vaccine.

Would you put this past the evil maggot? I wouldn't.

[Drahthaardogs]

2. This is hydroxychloroquine. Common ass drug

They used chloroquine for both MERs and SARs.

If I get it, I am demanding it.

Now how much you want to bet some fuckwad swoops in, buys the only company still making this cheap drug, Jack's the price up 1000x's, then calls it good?

[Grokenstein]

6. They'll die screaming for mercy.

It's one thing to try to squeeze people over a common-but-manageable affliction that affects a portion of the populace. This is a malady that can affect anyone, and potentially kill anyone. Try to pull that shit with this, and they'll never sleep again.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. National Emergency Decaration

There are very specific prohibitions against profiteering when the NE is declared.
Whether slime like Barr would pursue prosecution is a fair question, though.

[blueinredohio]

30. I hope not. I take Plaquenil for lupus.

[we can do it]

31. Wow. Just wow.

[DrToast]

3. They need to be producing these drugs right now

[Wednesdays]

4. Wow, I'm already taking Plaquenil

It's for my arthritis.

Now, I hope they don't cut me off because of shortages. Or skyrocket the price to the point where I can't afford it!

[octoberlib]

5. They've been running tests in the US , too. Just in vitro though

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32150618

[riverwalker]

7. Big pharma won't be happy

It’s generic form is made by at least 10 companies, is available For as low as .29 cents per pill. Studies show most effective if taken with zinc. Very promising.

https://www.drugs.com/availability/generic-plaquenil.html

[crickets]

20. I hope it works like gangbusters. Poetic justice all the way around. nt

[RT Atlanta]

22. fuck 'em

this is national emergency and there must be 'tools' in federal law where they can be forced into mfg the products for non-crazy profiit.

[MyOwnPeace]

26. Oh, don't worry!

You know IQ45 will stand up for us all and make sure EVERYBODY gets a fair chance!

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Is this tonic water?

Quinine?

[Drahthaardogs]

9. Quinine based, yes

But you would need to drink a shit ton of tonic water

[a la izquierda]

19. Can do

🤣

[crickets]

21. Bwaha! Right there with ya. Lime? nt

[a la izquierda]

23. Depends on the gin.

Hendricks requires a cucumber 😊

[crickets]

24. Indubitably. *clink*

[riverwalker]

10. The synthetic form of Quinine

[riverwalker]

11. Link to latest study 3/13

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTi-g18ftNZUMRAj2SwRPodtscFio7bJ7GdNgbJAGbdfF67WuRJB3ZsidgpidB2eocFHAVjIL-7deJ7/pub

[Qutzupalotl]

15. Thank you! nt

[NightWatcher]

12. I take 200 mg everyday and have for the past 7 years.

I am Omega Man!!!


Or I'll die sooner, who knows.

[Guilded Lilly]

13. KICK

[MuseRider]

14. I used to take that for my RA.

Had to use an eye chart every morning, there was something about that drug that messed with your eyesight and if it was off you had to stop taking it and go to the eye doctor. It was so long ago I can barely remember except I remember doing the chart every morning.

I remember no other problems with it and the plus was that everyone in my diving group had to take anti malarial drugs before we left on our trips but I was already covered.

[Ace Rothstein]

29. You have a good memory.

My wife takes hydrochloroquine for her RA and has to do the yearly eye doctor visit beyond her standard vision check.

[marybourg]

16. I took it for 15 years, before I developed

the eye damage for which it’s known. But short term use should not be a problem. It’s a pretty benign drug otherwise.

[eleny]

17. How long ago did you take it?

[marybourg]

18. I went off it about 8 years ago

[eleny]

25. Thank you, Mary

My husband takes it for arthritis. His prescribing doctor is a leading rheumatologist. He told us that the formula for the med has been tweaked and no instances of the eye issue has occurred since then. I'm not sure when the formula changed, though.

If you have any thoughts about this please pm me. You're a primary source of information, imo. Husband has his eyes checked for problems every six months since is doctor is generally cautious and vigilant. One of a kind, really.

Thanks again for your reply.

[marybourg]

32. I had been taking it for about 15 years,

going 2x a year for the red light field of vision test, and being told that my eyes were fine. Then I had to see a new ophthalmologist, and she said I had eye damage. So I stopped the Plaqunil. It didn’t seem to make any difference in my lupus, nor have I had any noticeable issues with the damage. That ophthalmologist says I still have eye damage; my old ophthalmologist says he sees nothing. The new ophthalmologist has since revealed herself to be somewhat lacking in common sense, but she she has excellent credentials, so who really knows? Best wishes to your husband and you.

[nature-lover]

28. Video below explains the research.

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