Tagged: Thailand
No, I don’t think the Thais have cured the Wuhan virus
Did you see that Thai doctors have cured the Novel Coronavirus?
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/cocktail-flu- … and-812699
Don’t hold your breath. They claim to have used anti-HIV drugs. Those are almost all antiretrovirals. Coronavirii are not retroviruses. It seems very unlikely meds that work by inhibiting the enzyme reverse transcriptase would affect members of the Coronaviridae, since the RNA of a coronavirus is not reverse-transcribed into DNA.
Oseltamivir (trade name Tamiflu), their third drug, is specific to influenza and again would not be expected to work against a totally different type of virus. I actually found a Chinese study that tested it against the SARS virus (close relative of 2019-nCoV) and found no activity.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/4/pdfs/03-0458.pdf
The whole media brouhaha is based on … one patient.
I can’t rule it out. I can and do doubt it a lot.