masukuma wrote:murchr wrote:masukuma wrote:So what I have learned so far
1) coronaviruses are a family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases like MERS, SARS and COVID-19.
2) there are coronaviruses that have not 'jumped' species and are mainly still in bats. bats being bats are everywhere! they are the animals with the second largest number of species and live everywhere...including kenya where a
study shows talks about the existence of Novel SARS-like and Other Coronaviruses in Bats living in Kenya.
4)
While it takes a bit of bad luck to get an outbreak started - the next coronavirus outbreak can be from anywhere -
Kenya's bats have 41 distinct coronaviruses so it's important to have this problem looked at in the long term.
5) a
1991 study in the journal of virology outlined how Chloroquine (amongst others) slowed down the growth of coronaviruses by raising the PH of the cells. apparently coronaviruses need acidic environments to bind to cell receptors.
6) ibuprofen has been in the news lately as one of the drugs to avoid if you are exhibiting C-19 symptoms. why? it helps them multiply. it also has a low PH.
Conclusion - anything that raises the PH of the body may be effective in stopping the reproduction of coronaviruses in human cells. this is not to mean that eating alkaline foods will translate to raising the PH of your tissues (as digestion may just neutralize it). Perhaps pharmacists and biochemists can tell us what other drugs lower the PH of blood and cell tissues.
If there's a 1991 study why is Faucci not enthusiastic about Chloroquin?
Why did MERS "disappear"?
Well Faucci is a scientist - he has to test it, collect data and the check if there is no adverse effects in patients with coronavirus. He is a man of the scientific process... not feelings or reading it on the internet. He is doing it in a way he can account for. As soon as there are no adverse effects - it's likely that he will proceed.
Please guys, you know drumpf is a snake oil salesman. He'll say anything to make himself chief medical doctor in a loony bin.
Quote:Chloroquine was among the first group of therapies Chinese scientists identified as being effective in curbing the new coronavirus. Clinical trials on about 130 patients demonstrated the drug’s ability to reduce the severity of the illness and speed up virus clearance, according to China’s Ministry of Sciences and Technology.
Chroloquine phosphate was officially recommended on Feb. 19 in the Covid-19 treatment guidelines published by China’s National Health Commission
Part 2
Quote:China’s recommendation to use chloroquine in treatment was quickly followed by a warning.
Two days after the treatment guideline update, health authorities in Hubei province -- China’s worst-hit region where the outbreak started and which accounted for majority of its over 80,000 patients -- asked hospitals to closely watch for, and immediately report, any adverse side effects of chloroquine phosphate
Quote:A woman in Wuhan proved how lethal chloroquine can be when it’s taken beyond the recommended dose. On Feb. 25, Shanghai-based The Paper reported that she took 1.8 grams of the drug she ordered online after suspecting she had the coronavirus. She did not, but the drug caused her to develop malignant cardiac arrhythmic, which can cause sudden death, and she was admitted to the intensive care unit.
As his guy for coronavirus said in his face. That he may be wrong or right. Let the science prove it.
Reports from Nigeria tell of people having severe reactions after they ran to buy chloroquin because Trump said so. In Kenya, we should be wiser. There's a reason why we have reduced it's use even for malaria.
This idea of witch doctors running countries should be highly discouraged.
Thieves are not good people. Tumeelewana?