Faced with so much bad news, finally here in Brazil we started to have interesting results in the fight against the new coronavirus, which has changed the structure of all powers around the world.
This week, Brazilian scientists from São Paulo are going to test, on 500 patients, a drug, with almost no side effects, with the effectiveness of 94% in cells infected by the new coronavirus, with a result, at most, in a month.
Who disclosed the information in an official communiqué was the Minister of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications, Marcos Pontes, but we need to take it easy!
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Scientists said that the answer is in one minute and the test uses domestic reagents.
Vaccines take longer than repositioning drugs, but we are working with a double vaccine, both for Influenza and for the new coronavirus. He also stressed that only science has the power to fight the virus.
Possible cure for the coronavirus coming from Brazil
With scientific prudence, he did not disclose the name of the medicine so “there would be no desperate shopping spree. This is because it is a known drug, widely available on the market. This, according to information from the Secretary of Policies for Training and Strategic Actions of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications (MCTIC), Marcelo Morales.
Another good news is that the minister said, is that Brazil will have in its hands at the latest, in the middle of May, the solution of a treatment, with medicine available even in a pediatric formulation.”
With the approval of the federal government, the medicine will be tested on 500 patients in seven hospitals, five in Rio de Janeiro, one in São Paulo and another in Brasília.
Important considerations about our possible cure.
Another important detail: the medication will be administered daily, for five days, with a further nine days of observation. In total: within 14 days, we will be able to see if the effects on patients will be the same as those already proven in infected cells”, highlighted the minister.
But we must be calm, the clinical trial will be carried out with patients who are hospitalized to monitor their symptoms and viral load.
Pontes also clarified that the protocol will be a completely randomized administration, that is, neither doctors nor patients will know who is taking the medication and who is receiving placebos.
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Source: São Paulo Secretary
