WUHAN (REUTERS) - Chinese doctors at the primary hospital treating severe coronavirus patients in the city of Wuhan said they have been using the HIV drug Kaletra since January and believe it is beneficial, despite a previous study that it was ineffective.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WUHAN - Chinese doctors at the primary hospital treating severe coronavirus patients in the city of Wuhan said they have been using the HIV drug Kaletra since January and believe it is beneficial, despite a previous study that it was ineffective.
He said doctors at Jinyintan had started prescribing the drug to their patients on Jan 6. It was one of the first hospitals to start treating infections after the coronavirus emerged in Wuhan in December. Last month, Israel approved the licensing of a generic version of Kaletra to treat patients infected with the coronavirus.
'DRUGS HAVE SOME USE' The second drug used at Jinyintan Hospital, bismuth potassium citrate, had also been found in 2003 during the SARS outbreak to have some effect on coronaviruses at the cellular level, hence the decision to prescribe it with Kaletra, said Zhang. Plasma therapy using the blood of patients who had recovered from the virus was a third treatment doctors were particularly interested in, Zhang said, noting that one patient who had been on a ventilator had been able to remove the tubes and walk out of hospital soon after he had received it.
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