A biotech company called Distributed Bio claims to have developed an antibody therapy against COVID-19. The drug will be tested for efficacy by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
Two older drugs now being used against COVID-19 are the malaria medications chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. The U.S. FDA is allowing chloroquine to be used off-label against COVID-19.
A small but positive study in France showed COVID-19 patients treated with chloroquine experienced rapid recovery. It also reduced the time they were contagious.
Read moreBritish American Tobacco (BAT) has joined the race to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, with plans to potentially manufacture 1 million to 3 million doses of vaccine per week.
The proprietary technology involves temporarily encoding tobacco plants with genetic instructions to produce specific target proteins.
Read moreThe WHO’s influenza pandemic plan, devised in 1999, was heavily influenced by the drug industry. The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) questioned the WHO’s handling of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, saying its recommendation to stockpile antivirals and vaccines wasted public funds.
PACE concluded there was “overwhelming evidence that the seriousness of the pandemic was vastly overrated by WHO,” and that the drug industry had influenced the organization’s decision-making.
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COVID-19 has now violently emerged, alongside the Climate Emergency, as an existential threat. Our health, economic livelihoods, climate stability, democracy—our very survival as a human species—are under attack.
If we’re going to survive this pandemic, and avoid the pandemics lying in wait, if we’re going to avoid the greatest pandemic of them all looming on the horizon—runaway global warming and catastrophic climate change—we
Read moreGlycyrrhizin, the major ingredient in licorice root, has shown effectiveness against SARS virus in scientific studies. It has been effective in treating viruses such as herpes, HIV, hepatitis, influenza, encephalitis and pneumonia.
Glycyrrhizin outperformed conventional antiviral medications against SARS in research published in the journal The Lancet. The substance seems to work earlier in the virus replication cycle, compared to other medications, inhibiting absorption and penetration of the virus.
Read moreNebulized hydrogen peroxide therapy is an inexpensive and simple way to treat most viral respiratory illnesses. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) consists of a water molecule (H2O) with an extra oxygen atom. The oxygen inactivates viral pathogens by breaking down the viral structure.
Additionally, your immune cells actually produce hydrogen peroxide. This is in part how your immune system kills infected cells. Hydrogen peroxide therapy aids your immune cells to perform their natural function more effectively.
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Remember last year when Washington Post reporters were boldly declaring that vitamins C and D could not (and should not) be used against respiratory infections? The information I was sharing about their use was deemed so dangerous to public health that I was branded as a "fake news" site by self-appointed, pharma-owned arbiters of truth like NewsGuard.
Read moreCOVID-19 may lead to inflammation in your airways or fluid in your lungs, requiring mechanical ventilation to pump oxygen into your body.
If ventilator shortages continue, and the number of people who need them at one time increase, doctors may be faced with making unthinkable choices, but creative solutions have been suggested.
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The global spread of coronavirus/COVID-19 has sent researchers and scientists into overdrive to find both treatments and cures.
In the meantime, doctors and other practitioners are, to a large extent, improvising. They are employing best-care practices for the very sick in hospital
Read moreThe French health ministry is warning against using nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen to treat fever and pain associated with COVID-19 infection, and to use acetaminophen (paracetamol) instead.
There’s also an entirely different reason for avoiding NSAIDs and other antipyretics when you have a fever. Fever is part of your body’s immune response; it’s how your body kills pathogens.
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