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Corona: drug found against the virus? Virologist Drosten tears apart French study

2020-04-06T12:33:57.654Z


Is there a drug for the coronavirus? Virologist Prof. Christian Drosten has commented on this - and has become very clear.


Is there a drug for the coronavirus? Virologist Prof. Christian Drosten has commented on this - and has become very clear.

  • The corona virus * has a firm grip on Europe
  • The crisis is coming to a head in many countries.
  • In his podcast, Prof. Christian Drosten has now informed about the latest developments.

Berlin - The corona virus * continues to paralyze society. In the meantime, closed borders, curfews or canceled events have become the order of the day in Europe and Germany.

What's next? There is no answer to this simple question, there are new developments almost every hour that are alarming.

During this time, Prof. Christian Drosten * informs people about the corona virus every weekday. Also on Thursday (March 19) he was heard again on the North German radio .

Coronavirus: Malaria drug helpful? Virologist Christian Drosten explains

Most recently, he had already resisted criticism, in the Thursday edition he now spoke about possible hopes that a malaria drug had recently raised. Research is currently underway in France to determine whether this can stop the corona virus .

Drosten now had to put these hopes into perspective. He first said: “ Chloroquine is a well-known malaria drug , one that is not free from side effects. We have known for a long time that chloroquine works against the old Sars corona virus in cell culture . ”

That sounds like good news. But the big but follows - after all, it is about cell culture on the one hand, and the lungs of humans, on the other, where a drug is supposed to work. Drosten explains: A substance that helps against a virus in cell culture does not automatically have to cure a patient. "It's all much, much more complicated," he says, adding: "A drug has to get where the virus is - in the lungs."

Coronavirus: Fast Cure Using Malaria Drug? Virologist Drosten has no hope

The helpful substance may first have to be metabolized and then there is the fact that the infected area in the body is to be assessed very differently than that in the cell culture dish.

The new episode of the podcast with Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten on the SARS CoV-2 spread is now online: https: //t.co/wL20dBWjDE

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The tests in France also rated Drosten as critical. After all, there were certain aspects in the composition of the groups that could be discussed - keyword “age” in the different cohorts. In addition, the virus is measured in the throat and not in the lungs . "And that is the biggest failure assumption the study" makes Drosten significantly. He also recognized: “What is measured has nothing to do with the outcome of the disease. It is just an initial indicator of how the disease will start. ”For Drosten , however, the outcome is currently the best measurement criterion for assessing treatment .

Coronavirus: Christian Drosten explains current status - First of all, hopes of malaria medication dashed

He does not want to reproach his colleagues in Marseille. "They mean it well," he explains. "I don't want to say chloroquine doesn't work. But the way this study was done, we're not a bit smarter . ”The truth has a second and a third level, you have to be careful.

And above all: the developments are overturning, there is still too much unclear to state the final truth.

* Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network

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