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Avigan Effective in Tackling Coronavirus
- wideasleep1 7y ago"Japan is considering using Avigan, an anti-influenza medication developed by a unit of Fujifilm Holdings Corp., to treat patients of the novel coronavirus, health minister Katsunobu Kato said Saturday. “We will do everything we can,” Kato said on a TV program, noting that there is no established treatment for COVID-19 yet. The drug is also known as Favipiravir." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/22/national/science-health/flu-drug-avigan-coronavirus/ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/22/national/scienc... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favipiravir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favipiravir
- bamboozled 7y agoSmells fishy to me. Also too bad Japan is hardly testing, the article said it’s useless once it’s multiplied, so I guess it’s not going to do much unless it’s used early ?