A woman in a hospital here in Thenon, Paris. (drawing) – PHILIPPE LOPEZ / AFP
Four French hospitals will begin treatment tests on patients with Covid-19. The CHU of
Lille is one of them, announces
France 3 Hauts-de-France. “ If all goes well the first patients could receive a new treatment, this weekend “Said Professor Dominique Deplanque to our colleague.
Concretely, by lot, patients and voluntary patients (who already have signs of respiratory distress) will be administered an antiviral designed for Ebola: the remdesivir. Antivirals produced to fight HIV-AIDS could also be tested quickly.
France 3 specifies that the methodology followed by the National Medicines Safety Agency, which supervises these tests, should allow treatment to be quickly eliminated if it is not conclusive and to validate others if they show good results. On the other hand, it is not immediately a question of testing the hydroxychloroquine which showed some results in Marseilles: “There is no proof, just a signal, on ONE effect: the carrying of the virus in the throat and nose… and not on the patient’s clinical course, ”says Dominique Deplanque. But that could change next week.
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