{"id":30894,"date":"2020-03-31T09:54:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T08:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palmerini.net\/blog\/?p=30894"},"modified":"2020-03-31T14:08:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:08:05","slug":"medical-authorities-in-china-found-a-cure-for-the-covid-19-infection-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/medical-authorities-in-china-found-a-cure-for-the-covid-19-infection-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical authorities in China found a cure for the Covid-19 infection disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-30894\" data-postid=\"30894\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-30894 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_onfi641 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_s07v644 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_56w0903   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SARS-CoV-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SARS-CoV-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SARS-CoV-2-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SARS-CoV-2-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SARS-CoV-2-47x48.jpg 47w, https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SARS-CoV-2-1160x1163.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SARS-CoV-2-1024x1027.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Medical authorities in China found a cure for the Covid-19 infection disease<br \/><br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It has a high degree of safety and is clearly effective in treatment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Zhang Xinmin, official at China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s science and technology ministry.<br \/><br \/>Clinical trials involved 340 patients and verified Favipiravir + interferon (IFN)-\u00ce\u00b1\u00c2\u00a0 is effective in coronavirus patients.<br \/><br \/>In a clinical trial patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 received oral Favipiravir (Day 1: 1600 mg twice daily; Days 2\u00e2\u20ac\u201c14: 600 mg twice daily) plus interferon (IFN)-\u00ce\u00b1 by aerosol inhalation (5 million U twice daily) , and verified a shorter viral clearance time of 4 days (2.5\u00e2\u20ac\u201c9) versus 11 (8\u00e2\u20ac\u201c13) and a significant improvement of 91.43% in chest imaging . The treatment showed also a significantly higher improvement rate in chest imaging. <br \/><br \/>See this link for references<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2095809920300631\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2095809920300631<\/a><br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chictr.org.cn\/showprojen.aspx?proj=49042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.chictr.org.cn\/showprojen.aspx?proj=49042<\/a><br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/18\/japanese-flu-drug-clearly-effective-in-treating-coronavirus-says-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/18\/japanese-flu-drug-clearly-effective-in-treating-coronavirus-says-china<\/a><br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/news\/20200317_48\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/news\/20200317_48\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please, anyway, note that the policy of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to flatten the curve\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of coronavirus-related deaths has largely been based upon an\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/16\/us\/coronavirus-fatality-rate-white-house.html\">Imperial College London model<\/a> headed by Professor Neil Ferguson that\u00c2\u00a0 is likely highly flawed, Oxford epidemiologist Sunetra Gupta argues.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Gupta lead a team of researchers at Oxford University in a corrected modelling study suggests that as many as half of the people in the United Kingdom have already been infected by COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the case,\u00c2\u00a0fewer than one in a thousand who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been infected with COVID-19 become sick enough to need hospitalization,\u00c2\u00a0leaving the vast majority with mild cases or free of symptoms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oxford-epidemiologist-heres-why-that-doomsday-model-is-likely-way-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oxford-epidemiologist-heres-why-that-doomsday-model-is-likely-way-off<\/a><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical authorities in China found a cure for the Covid-19 infection disease\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It has a high degree of safety and is clearly effective in treatment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Zhang Xinmin, official at China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s science and technology ministry.Clinical trials involved 340 patients and verified Favipiravir + interferon (IFN)-\u00ce\u00b1\u00c2\u00a0 is effective in coronavirus patients.In a clinical trial patients with laboratory-confirmed 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loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SARS-CoV-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SARS-CoV-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SARS-CoV-2-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SARS-CoV-2-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SARS-CoV-2-47x48.jpg 47w, https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SARS-CoV-2-1160x1163.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/SARS-CoV-2-1024x1027.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Medical authorities in China found a cure for the Covid-19 infection disease<br \/><br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It has a high degree of safety and is clearly effective in treatment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Zhang Xinmin, official at China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s science and technology ministry.<br \/><br \/>Clinical trials involved 340 patients and verified Favipiravir + interferon (IFN)-\u00ce\u00b1\u00c2\u00a0 is effective in coronavirus patients.<br \/><br \/>In a clinical trial patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 received oral Favipiravir (Day 1: 1600 mg twice daily; Days 2\u00e2\u20ac\u201c14: 600 mg twice daily) plus interferon (IFN)-\u00ce\u00b1 by aerosol inhalation (5 million U twice daily) , and verified a shorter viral clearance time of 4 days (2.5\u00e2\u20ac\u201c9) versus 11 (8\u00e2\u20ac\u201c13) and a significant improvement of 91.43% in chest imaging . The treatment showed also a significantly higher improvement rate in chest imaging. <br \/><br \/>See this link for references<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2095809920300631\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2095809920300631<\/a><br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chictr.org.cn\/showprojen.aspx?proj=49042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.chictr.org.cn\/showprojen.aspx?proj=49042<\/a><br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/18\/japanese-flu-drug-clearly-effective-in-treating-coronavirus-says-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/18\/japanese-flu-drug-clearly-effective-in-treating-coronavirus-says-china<\/a><br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/news\/20200317_48\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/news\/20200317_48\/<\/a><\/p> <p>Please, anyway, note that the policy of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to flatten the curve\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of coronavirus-related deaths has largely been based upon an\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/16\/us\/coronavirus-fatality-rate-white-house.html\">Imperial College London model<\/a> headed by Professor Neil Ferguson that\u00c2\u00a0 is likely highly flawed, Oxford epidemiologist Sunetra Gupta argues.<\/p> <p>Professor Gupta lead a team of researchers at Oxford University in a corrected modelling study suggests that as many as half of the people in the United Kingdom have already been infected by COVID-19.<\/p> <p>If this is the case,\u00c2\u00a0fewer than one in a thousand who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been infected with COVID-19 become sick enough to need hospitalization,\u00c2\u00a0leaving the vast majority with mild cases or free of symptoms.<\/p> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oxford-epidemiologist-heres-why-that-doomsday-model-is-likely-way-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oxford-epidemiologist-heres-why-that-doomsday-model-is-likely-way-off<\/a><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmerini.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}