{"id":30386,"date":"2020-03-22T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T10:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=30386"},"modified":"2020-03-22T10:55:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T10:55:58","slug":"coronavirus-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/coronavirus-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"French scientist reports successful coronavirus treatment trial, curbing spread by 25 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As the world continues to grapple with a remedy to curb coronavirus, a French scientist has hinted at a successful trial for Coronavirus treatment with tests showing that the treatment line can stop Covid-19 from spreading in less than a week.<\/strong><br \/>\nProf. Raolt who works at Hospitalo-Universitaire streamed a video to show the experiments that were conducted at the beginning on Monday. Professor Raolt who is a specialist on infectious ailments was called upon by the President of France to conduct tests for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/traditional-chinese-medicine-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coronavirus<\/a> treatment.<\/p>\n<h2>Chloroquine used as coronavirus treatment alongside Plaquenil<\/h2>\n<p>According to Raolt, the first patients of coronavirus that he administered <strong>chloroquine<\/strong>, reported rapid recovery and a huge decline of the timeline; the cases of infection were still contagious. Chloroquine is the conventional formula for treating malaria alongside Plaquenil.<br \/>\nThe lead scientist said that they included patients that had consented to the coronavirus treatment, a move that saw all patients agree to be treated in two cities Avignon and Nice.<br \/>\nWith reference to media news, the procedure was availed to 24 coronavirus infected people who became the first to contact the virus in France and had volunteered for the procedure.<\/p>\n<h2>A huge difference between the patients<\/h2>\n<p>The patients were administered with <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/europe\/covid-19-french-researcher-reports-successful-drug-trial\/articleshow\/74754225.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">600mcg of the drug<\/a> in 10 days and were closely checked and monitored in case of any side effects emanating from other medications.<br \/>\nIn his report, Professor Raolt remarked that there was a huge difference between the patients who took Plaquenil and those who did not. <strong>Those who were administered Plaquenil were less contagious with 25 percent only cases remaining contagious. Chloroquine phosphate was used before to manage infections in China during the ongoing treatment trials.<\/strong><br \/>\nIn other attempts, Kaletra, a United States drug used for the treatment of viral infections including HIV, is being used to fight for coronavirus treatment.<br \/>\nThe drug&#8217;s ability to reduce contagious levels is a huge step towards curbing coronavirus spread has been seen as a milestone in the efforts for coronavirus treatment to stop the deadly virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world continues to grapple with a remedy to curb coronavirus, a French scientist has hinted at a successful trial for Coronavirus treatment with tests showing that the treatment line can stop Covid-19 from spreading in less than a week. Prof. Raolt who works at Hospitalo-Universitaire streamed a video to show the experiments that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":30387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}