i currently take Plaquenil (Hydroxychloroquine) for rheumatoid arthritis, and my doctor did indicate it may be helpful against Covid but not enough tests to confirm. Is it close enough to chloroquine to be the same ?
Additional possible drugs are alluvia, actemra. I think there's a study out for alluvia.
Things to avoid are aspirin (suspected basses on [1]) and ibuprofen (French govt recommendation).
Someone should come up with a summary page of the potential therapeutic drugs and their current state (suspected/in study/recommended)
Sorry for the brevity. On a phone.
1. https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/49/9/1405/301441?fbclid...
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...
The Medcram video shared elsewhere in this thread (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7F1cnWup9M) does mention that hydrochloroquine is a relative of chloroquine and is also being administered in some places when chloroquine is not available (at a different dosage). They take pains to point out that they should not be administered at the same time as that can lead to a fatal complication, and also that chloroquine as a treatment overall has not been subjected to a rigorous medical study.
Maybe that'd ameliorate the <70 factor.
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...
Apparently the possible utility of chloroquine was discoevered because SLE patients on it in China weren't getting Covid-19 during the outbreak.
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