There is hope in the horizon in the quest to contain the killer coronavirus as scientists have recorded major breakthroughs. COVID19 Coronavirus Pandemic
Top on the list are: Vitamin C tackles colds as Chinese doctors test its effects on the deadly outbreak; drug made out of the blood of recovered patients developed by pharmaceutical firms amid hunt for vaccine; growing number of sufferers recovering with more than half of worldwide patients discharged from quarantine; spread of virus can be significantly slowed and even reversed through implementation of robust containment and control activities; and Spanish coronavirus patient recovers after...
According to the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering, United States , of the 97,841 people to have fallen ill worldwide, 53,786 – more than half, or 55 percent – have recovered. Also, the World Health Organisation , in a statement, the global number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has surpassed 110,000 reminded all countries and communities that the spread of this virus can be significantly slowed or even reversed through the implementation of robust containment and control activities.
“Allowing uncontrolled spread should not be a choice of any government, as it will harm not only the citizens of that country but affect other countries as well. Also, scientists are getting closer to being able to treat the coronavirus using blood from patients who have recovered. It has been used to tackle Ebola in the past but it could take more than one recovered patient to treat a single sick person, so will not be used for everyone.
It is called ‘plasma-derived therapy’ because it will be based on the blood plasma of people who have recovered from the coronavirus. Another company, Regeneron, is trying to make a similar treatment by working out which antibodies work against the coronavirus and developing them in a lab. The 62-year-old was treated with the antiretroviral drug lopinavir-ritonavir, sold under the brand name Kaletra, which has been used to treat HIV patients for a decade.
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