A current diary. And welcoming us into the sun. They live a schedule as up close and personal as the pandemic will allow. Diaries starts maintained d. W. Is no panacea to the pandemic right now although way closer to a treatment. For it and how much hope can we put in old drugs. I got to tell ya i watched the 1st dosage and dont believe i ever prayed over about a quarter seizure is hard is how prayed over that 30 minutes hoping that this was in fact going to be helpful to me and prove they can be helpful for others. We welcome the recent peter. During the most controlled trial that has been done in the United States and theres a signals of their full potential use of drugs this is not a game changer it doesnt change the fact that we have. That many people. In the search for a covert 19 q of walks a fine line between the your agency of finding a drug and the process of testing if it does more good than. Bad as all and welcome when looking to get a new wonder drug for any time soon but old treatments for other diseases are in trials and could be repurposed. Just about that in a moment 1st look at some of the candidates. Rentes severe. No pin of the year return of the year laura quinn hydroxy chloroquine just some of the many medications currently being tested this treatments for coated 19 what they all have in common is that they were originally developed to treat other diseases. As yet there are no reliable studies demonstrating safety and efficacy against ovid 19 yet politicians such as donald trump are hailing them as breakthroughs in treatment storage quantities of oracle and. Lets take a closer look at clark when a product developed decades ago by a German Pharma Company buyer to treat malaria the company in fact discontinued the sale of the product last year but now Clinical Trials investigating its use against the new coronavirus are producing promising results however while studies in china indicated inhibits the reproduction of the virus others are identifying dangerous side effects in patients such as heart problems. The related medication hydroxy chloroquine can actually increase the risk of sudden death. Combination medicine low pin of fear return of ear this was 1st developed to treat hiv and has been prescribed to children over 2 as well as adults clinical studies show its highly effective as an antiviral. But a recent study with coated 19 patients proved disappointing. Researchers believe the patients were treated too late and given too low a dose. Of your meanwhile is hailed by many as the most promising treatment for covert 19. Us Pharmaceutical Company gilliatt originally developed a drug to fight ebola it ultimately proved inferior to other drugs tested but now Clinical Trials show that it can reduce the impact of the covert 19 disease in some patients Cutting Recovery Time from 15. 00 to 11. 00 days and the mortality rate from 11. 6 to 8 percent in study participants but events are said he conducted in china failed to identify or reduce mortality rate still the u. S. Food and Drug Administration the f. D. A. Is allowing emergency. To treat severely ill patients. President of the World Health Summit is also just thank you very much for joining us this is like a little trip to the chemist for me lets start with. Would you prescribe that. Yes its been described and tastes been effective and it will and its one of the drugs were sure to be used now from our corner of ours but the data has so far im not that convincing so this is still a discussion whether theyre on the drugs which might be more effective that is right there comparative try its no going on. 2 to come 10 various drugs and did give it up standards but what are some of the other drugs that were developed for other diseases like it or not its very were drops like lupino here and a meter new here and its antibody were droughts and theyre into malaria drugs so theres a who are going right to have different drugs being tested and then 2 major trends going on in the world no to compare obese various drugs so that the dont you know show solidarity trial and the oxford recovery trial here and the other smaller trend its going on or its you know a country. Is coordinating some tried it between on the german universities so this is an uncertainty which struck really superior to the other one problematic is that the one drug cant treat all symptoms of cover 19 or it is problematic because i said if you have a patient you dont really know what to do and everybody tries to this and they observe the patient and it helps you know if the symptoms but there is no standard recrimination so far. Tell me trials take forever the drug needs to be safe is all that out the window now. One of these drugs has been tested and they are safe for their. Primary indications so where is it b m was tested for it and then it is safe and its being used working right the same is for the anti. Vibrant drunks of other kinds but they are never being sufficiently tested for. Us and covert 19 and it is still going on but that is in a way that not so surprising because this came upon us there by surprise and takes time to even up these award standards on drug treatment a lot of people will you argue that weve been warned about this for a long time but youve spoke about the global cooperations that are going on at the moment by the w. H. O. By the university of oxford those sorts of trials that a shed around the globe in a one way fast tracking this process. What piece out the rocks which are on the market already so in a way its comparative triers they dont really you dont need to know who they can to reprosecute us to. Use them so theyre theyre out on the market and they can be used and its just the indication the new indication but you have to be oh well its of the fact that. A infected person with a cone of avarice. Is in different stages some have very little symptoms some very heavy symptoms some on and on not to fear respiration so theyre very good and you know this a diversity of patients which need to be treated and to its not so easy to funk roups and then test each drug at each stage of a patient sit on a patient situation so that its. Its not easy from a cannot really to really give it given up stand nets and recommendations work right and although its not a total success im told some of these drugs do minimize the time people spend in hospital which is one of the biggest bugs in this crisis is getting enough hospital beds. You know why. In order to true or if his words might corporation and get as many patients as possible into a standard as for 2 chords and then test them thats the best way to save time and to come up with their air. As fast as possible with peer recommendations necessary in the meantime these drugs are being used and the results have been we project so so we gain experience as we treat our colleges the president of the World Health Summit thank you. Its my pleasure thank you now for your questions on the corona virus is our science correspondent eric williams. How long could this virus last in your refrigerator at home. I couldnt find any new studies addressing this question although im sure that research into it is on go away but i did dig up one that looked at the reaction to temperature in the virus that causes sars which is a close relative of the new coronavirus what that work showed was that sars actually likes it when its cold and dry at 4 degrees celsius which is a temperature that similar to that in an average refrigerator it was able to survive for up to 4 weeks and was inactivated much more quickly warmer temperatures now thats no guarantee that the new coronavirus will respond in exactly the same way but it seems pretty plausible that it wont mind the cold in a refrigerator really much at all still before you go and start scrubbing your fridge out with believe each dont forget that there have still been no confirmed reports of transmission of sars cove 2 through food so it seems pretty unlikely that you would get it from your refrigerator. Does and. Bacterial gel do anything against a virus like ovid 19. There are many different kinds of anti microbial Hand Sanitizer products out there those that contain 60 percent or more alcohol are good at killing both bacteria and viruses like sars cove to the alcohol breaks down the fatty membranes that enclose both types of microbes but some anti microbial products rely on other compounds to kill potential pathogens instead and although they can be sold commercially its not clear if there is effective against the new coronavirus as an alcohol based sanitizer would be a recent study says they arent based on that research the American Centers for Disease Control have warns that those non alcohol based products might be less reliable so its worth reading the label just keep in mind that even if it only says antibacterial if a sanitized or contains more than 60 percent alcohol then itll kill sores cove too as well. 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