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It's been confirmed effective against SARS CoV in vitro [1]. Before you say it, yes, I know treatments in vitro do not always work in vivo. Reports from China,
by pbreit 7y ago
It's been confirmed effective against SARS CoV in vitro [1]. Before you say it, yes, I know treatments in vitro do not always work in vivo.
Reports from China, South Korea and France have suggested efficacy in humans against COVID-19.
1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15351731 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15351731
- et2o 7y agoActually they rarely translate. Chloroquine is a particularly funny example because they have already tried it as an antiviral drug several times without any efficacy.
- pbreit 7y agoCan you point to evidence that in vitro efficacy rarely translates to in vivo? I've seen the one situation of chloroquine showing promise in vitro against SARS CoV but no others. Is there literature on others?