According to a study by doctors at the University of Hong Kong, triple therapy with lopanivir, ritonavir and ribavirin is effective against Covid-19.
<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "As the months go by and no treatment was officially found against Covid-19, a small study by Hong Kong doctors seems hopeful, CNN reports: microbiologist Kwok-Yung Yuen and researchers from the University of Hong Kong have tested the combination of three antivirals – lopanivir, ritonavir and ribavirin – in combination with a multiple sclerosis drug called interferon beta, and the results were very promising.
The study patients all had mild to moderate symptoms and were treated within seven days of their positive test. The Hong Kong medical team gave some patients HIV medication Kaletra (lopanivir-ritonavir), while others received the combination lopinavir-ritonavir-ribavirin as well as beta interferon injections.
According to the results of the study, patients who received the three antiviral + interferon beta cocktail felt better within four days with no side effects, and were tested negative after an average of 7 days. For their part, those who had taken only Kaletra were still positive after 12 days, reported Dr. Yuen’s team in the British scientific journal The Lancet.
“This study is really refreshing because it shows that remdesivir is not the only option,” Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a doctor at the University of California, San Francisco, told CNN. “Data-reactid =” 25 “> As the months go by and no treatment has been officially found for Covid-19, a small study by Hong Kong doctors seems hopeful, reports CNN. Indeed, microbiologist Kwok-Yung Yuen and researchers from the University of Hong Kong tested the combination of three antivirals – lopanivir, ritonavir and ribavirin – in combination with a multiple sclerosis drug called interferon beta, and the results have been very promising.
The study patients all had mild to moderate symptoms and were treated within seven days of their positive test. The Hong Kong medical team gave some patients HIV medication Kaletra (lopanivir-ritonavir), while others received the combination lopinavir-ritonavir-ribavirin as well as beta interferon injections.
According to the results of the study, patients who received the three antiviral + interferon beta cocktail felt better within four days with no side effects, and were tested negative after an average of 7 days. For their part, those who had taken only Kaletra were still positive after 12 days, reported Dr. Yuen’s team in the British scientific journal The Lancet.
“This study is really refreshing because it shows that remdesivir is not the only option,” Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a doctor at the University of California, San Francisco, told CNN.
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