The term “sterilizing immunity” is used by medical professionals to describe how vaccines combat a disease
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23 EST First published on Thu 12 Nov 2020 09
BackgroundSevere acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is caused by a newly discovered coronavirus (SARS
Unfortunately, recent data examining these drugs have been trending in the direction of the conclusion that these drugs probably don't work against COVID-19 but do cause harm
We had 20 years ago proposed to systematically test chloroquine in viral infections because it had been shown to be effective in vitro against a broad range of viruses [3,4]
Chloroquine is an amine acidotropic form of quinine that was synthesised in Germany by Bayer in 1934 and emerged approximately 70 years ago as an effective substitute for natural quinine [1,2]
It was first identified in The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, causing the disease COVID-19, first emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has now spread to 203 countries or territories, infected over 2 million people and caused over 133,000 deaths
Chloroquine
Chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) were widely adopted in treating COVID-19, but the results were contradictive
He taught about infectious diseases at the Faculty of Medicine of Aix-Marseille University (AMU), and in 1984, created the Rickettsia Unit of the university
The WHO declared the epidemic of COVID-19 as a pandemic on March 12 th 2020