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Does anyone have any information about the Favipiravir testing going on in China? From what I read, it has a 90% success rate treating coronavirus AND is a supe

• comicjk 7y ago
  Here's a short paper on it [pdf]: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ddt/14/1/14_2020.01012/_pdf/-char/en https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ddt/14/1/14_2020.01012/... Not many details, just that it worked better than some HIV antivirals. Still, worth ramping up production of this in advance of trials. It's a surprisingly small and simple molecule.
• gnulinux 7y ago
  I read this X% success rate for many drugs, Remdesivir, chloroquine etc... What does it mean? Giving no drug, just ventilator alone has 97% success rate right? So how do we know that that 90% is due to the drug and not, you know, immune system itself? Moreover, a lot of people keep saying both Remdesivir and chloroquine are in official treatment suggestions in Italy, and seeing Italy is suffering a pretty bad mortality rate, how do we even know these drugs are better than placebo?
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  • mypalmike 7y ago
    Was 97% a hypothetical? I have heard much lower figures for ventilator success rates.
    • gnulinux 7y ago
      Do they use these drugs only to severe patients who need ventilator? I was referring to the overall estimated CFR (3%). What is the success rate of ventilators then?
  • cm2187 7y ago
    In the case of the french study, the timing is a key thing. Lower viral load quickly = less contagious = inserting grains of sand in the propagation of the virus and if the numbers add up, hopefully a non-economy nuking alternative to lock downs.
• barbs 7y ago
  This came out about an hour ago https://youtu.be/hPz5KxgI_K4?t=245 https://youtu.be/hPz5KxgI_K4?t=245