Favipirvir - Japanese drug for treating corona has very promising results

[TamrajKilvish]

https://www.livescience.com/flu-drug-could-treat-coronavirus.html

 

[TamrajKilvish]

Patients in Shenzhen who had tested positive for COVID-19 and who were given the drug got a negative virus test back four days later, as a median (half showed a negative test earlier and half later than four days). That was compared with a negative test about 11 days later, as a median, for patients not on the drug, according to news reports. In that same trial, lung conditions (as shown in X-rays) improved in about 91% of patients taking Favipiravir, compared with just 62% who weren't taking the antiviral drug. 

[TamrajKilvish]

In the Wuhan trial, the drug also seemed to shorten the duration of a patient's fever from an average of 4.2 days to 2.5 days, according to Pharmaceutical Technology.

[TamrajKilvish]

However, the drug seems less effective in patients with severe symptoms. "We've given Avigan to 70 to 80 people, but it doesn't seem to work that well when the virus has already multiplied," a source from the Japanese Health Ministry told the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, according to The Guardian.

 

Doctors are using the same drug in Japan to treat coronavirus patients with mild to moderate symptoms, 

[siru]

3 hours ago, TamrajKilvish said:

However, the drug seems less effective in patients with severe symptoms. "We've given Avigan to 70 to 80 people, but it doesn't seem to work that well when the virus has already multiplied," a source from the Japanese Health Ministry told the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, according to The Guardian.

 

Doctors are using the same drug in Japan to treat coronavirus patients with mild to moderate symptoms, 

80% of the cases are mild to moderate.. this is good news

 

[TamrajKilvish]

2 hours ago, siru said:

80% of the cases are mild to moderate.. this is good news

 

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202003/17/WS5e708666a31012821727fcbd.html

China lo Favipiravir ki clinical trials completed. It is going to be used in the treatment of patients.

Favipiravir is a simple drug. Less expensive and no side effects in ll the trials.

I hope this is going to be the frontline medicine to treat Corona viral infection