UK news on HCQ --
Daily Mail: Hydroxy is being discounted TOO SOON, say scientists who believe the
malaria drug could saves thousands of lives by preventing COVID-19
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8599809
BBC: Hydroxychloroquine being 'discarded prematurely', say scientists
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53679498
Hydroxychloroquine should not be hastily dismissed as Covid-19 treatment, researchers say
https://www.standard.co.uk/new…onald-trump-a4518031.html
AAPS: Hydroxychloroquine Is Not about Trump
https://aapsonline.org/hydroxy…quine-is-not-about-trump/
AAPS: Big Tech Silencing Physicians: A Very Dangerous Road for American Medicine
https://aapsonline.org/big-tec…ad-for-american-medicine/
Australian regulators roadblock ivermectin --
No warp speed for Aussie Covid wonder drug
Why are we ignoring the potential cure under our noses?
How to Discredit a Medical Treatment - The Saga of Hydroxychloroquine and More
Whiteboard Doctor: A Tale Of Two Cell Types: New Evidence Suggesting Two Different Mechanisms Of SARS-CoV-2 Invasion!
- cites paper that indicates (in vitro) HCQ does not effectively block Covid
entry into lung cells expressing TMPRSS2 protease
- but, did not include zinc, so did not determine if HCQ's zinc ionphore activity
reduces intracellular viral replication as many propose
- perhaps, suggests that TMPRSS2 antagonists might enhance HCQ's anti-Covid effect
This recent preprint --
The DHODH Inhibitor PTC299 Arrests SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Suppresses Induction of Inflammatory Cytokines
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.05.238394v1
- may be of interest since the readily available supplement berberine also inhibits DHODH --
Computational and experimental prediction of molecules involved in the anti-melanoma action of berberine