Let's Go Down the Rabbit Hole, Part 3

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Not more than 15 minutes had passed from my posting above until I came across a post on Twitter where
a cure has been found for the Corona virus!

I would usually frown at anything on Twitter, however...

Coronavirus cure: HIV drug could STOP deadly disease in major breakthrough - REVEALED.



'Coronavirus is being treated with an HIV wonderdrug in a major bid to stop the disease spreading,
Chinese doctors have revealed.

The new strain has been found to be at least 70 percent similar in genome sequences to the early-2000
breakout known as SARS-CoV, an animal virus believed to have originated from bats, which first infected
humans in the Guangdong province of southern China in 2002.

Two years after the breakout,  major research was put forward claiming protease inhibitors, a class of
antiviral drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS, could be used to treat SARS. The study revealed that one of the
drugs known as nelfinavir “strongly inhibited relation of the SARS coronavirus,” leading to the decrease
of toxins in already infected cells.

It concluded that “nelfinavir could decrease the production of virus from cells".

In 2006, the World Health Organisation (WHO) expert panel on SARS treatment requested a systematic
review and comprehensive summary of protease inhibitor treatments used for SARS-infected patients
in order to guide future treatment and identify priorities for research.

In the same year, scientists found success in using other protease inhibitors including lopinavir, ritonavir
and ribavirin on 41 patients with SARS – the same disease strain found in the new outbreak of coronavirus.

That study found all three treatments produce “significantly lower” negative results, with 2.4 percent having
adverse clinical outcomes compared with 28.8 percent without the use. The study revealed lopinavir and
ritonavir were associated with the better outcomes, but since 2004, a variety of different protease inhibitors
have been tested, with ribavirin being ruled as "ineffective".

Yesterday, Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at Harvard School of Public Health, revealed experts in Galveston
are using protease inhibitors “somewhat successfully" to tackle coronavirus. Microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung
from the University of Hong Kong has urged citizens in China not to worry and confirmed the use of protease
inhibitors will be used to combat the infection.

England’s Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty revealed yesterday that NHS England and Public Health
England have issued additional advice to medical staff in the NHS, but did not confirm whether the drugs will be
used should an outbreak occur in the UK.

The WHO said it is "too early" to declare an international public health emergency over the outbreak "given its
restrictive and binary nature"...'

The Express: