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WSJ on “promising drug combination” to treat coronavirus, and the “new data supporting this treatment”

  
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The Wall Street Journal on Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.

Physicians are using two drugs in combination
  • hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin
to treat patients with advanced Covid-19 symptoms
Kansas City area physicians … continue to treat many patients, and some have shown improvement. Major medical centers including the University of Washington and Mass General have added hydroxychloroquine to treatment options. So here’s an update, a response to some questions that have come up, and suggestions based on the latest information.
Here is the link to the article for more info – its far too detailed to go into here.

More details on the Chinese report on drugs said to treat the new coronavirus earlier

  
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The two drugs are arbidol and darunavir

(h/t @ Eunice Yoon, CNBC)

Both of which are said to inhibit the new coronavirus, according to researchers at the Zhejiang University. Lead scientists are recommending the drugs to be used in China’s National Health Commission’s official protocol although the commission warns that so far, there is no confirmed effective treatment still.

Just doing a little digging on the surface here, arbidol isn’t really a common drug outside of Russia and China and is not an FDA-approved treatment for influenza.
As for darunavir, it has been used to treat HIV/AIDS cases alongside other antiretrovirals such as ritonavir – currently on the NHC’s protocol list.
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