To hear it, getting rid of the coronavirus would be a breeze. In a video posted on YouTube on Tuesday, Professor Didier Raoult, the director of the Mediterranean Infection Research Institute (Marseille), said that chloroquine, a former antimalarial drug now rather used against certain autoimmune diseases, would be effective against coronaviruses. According to him, this molecule could even return the disease to the rank of "respiratory infection the easiest to treat of all" .
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The message of Professor Raoult, viewed more than 210,000 times in 24 hours, was not long in creating immense hopes: "Already seen three prescriptions of chloroquine at the pharmacy" , was surprised a pharmacist on Twitter Wednesday. But it is going a little quickly in work. Because these claims are based on two Chinese announcements that are still very preliminary. The first is a study published by the journal Cell Research . It indicates that chloroquine is effective in combating the virus in vitro , on samples
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