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Aurum
Master Cruncher The Great Basin Joined: Dec 24, 2017 Post Count: 2384 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I agree, I think IBM CEO is just show-boating.
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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I agree, I think IBM CEO is just show-boating. No, the only one mentioned in that article was the Director of IBM Research Dario Gil. |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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University of Oxford is conducting a larger scale double blind test with an old malaria medicine, chloroquine. That stuff you can only take 3 months but the participants will be followed for 5 months or until they catch cv19, whichever comes first. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04303507 On this post on a non-profit org. that I manage, you can see the research of some scientist wich used malaria drug with Croatia's antiviral drug Sumamed (azithromycin). Link: https://web.facebook.com/Play4Life.hr/posts/2799119670141512 Hope we all can cure this more rapidly.  |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi everyone, As members of the World Community Grid team, we’re all deeply concerned about the current and possible impact of COVID-19. As you can imagine, we’re fielding questions about how soon we’ll have a project up and running to help fight the virus. Here’s where we are as of today:
(And as an FYI, the World Community Grid team usually works remotely anyway, so our work will continue to go forward) Many thanks, Juan Just hoping you also reached out to Rosetta@home to have pipeline from them. That would be a nice project here & we could just add this project here. It's time to be "together", not separate. Especially not waste the resources (double cycles & double research). So, did you ask rosetta@home about to help them out with only jobs named directly towards COVID-19?  |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3294 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I seriously doubt Rosetta@home wants to become a WCG sub-project and if they aren't allowing Rosetta@home users to choose the work they get, why would they do that for WCG?
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Former Member
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University of Oxford is conducting a larger scale double blind test with an old malaria medicine, chloroquine. That stuff you can only take 3 months but the participants will be followed for 5 months or until they catch cv19, whichever comes first. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04303507 On this post on a non-profit org. that I manage, you can see the research of some scientist wich used malaria drug with Croatia's antiviral drug Sumamed (azithromycin). Link: https://web.facebook.com/Play4Life.hr/posts/2799119670141512 Hope we all can cure this more rapidly. You can tell by the name it is not an antiviral but an antibiotic. Giving an antibiotic for a viral infection is highly not recommended unless there is a significant secondary bacterial infection. Doing so only fosters the creation of drug resistant bacteria and does nothing against the virus. |
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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1670 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Chloroquine is not an antibiotic but an antiparasitic.
----------------------------------------It is an old product (about 60 years) and it is also used against some autoimmune diseases such as lupus. In France, there is currently very hot discussions between pros and contras for using this medicine on a large scale for covid-19 patients. Last Sunday, a European clinical test - Discovery - involving 3200 patients has been launched for testing 4 products, incl. hydroxychloroquine. Some Chinese scientists and one well known French researcher consider that using hydroxychloroquine could be helpful. However, the first tests conducted in France some weeks ago involved only 24 patients and 4 patients have been excluded of the study during the test. As usual, whatever the criticality of the situation is, it is more than necessary to apply and to follow Good Clinical Practice, otherwise we can experience a lot of (avoidable) troubles (e.g. "bouncing effect"). Yves ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by KerSamson at Mar 26, 2020 1:44:24 AM] |
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Former Member
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azithromycin is an antibiotic, which is what Doneske is talking about.
----------------------------------------In dire cases also a cancer treatment support drug is being used: Tocilizumab. It's been approved by the FDA for testing, other countries are using it too, again only in very dire cases. It's very much tapping in the dark and hope one proofs to be as close to the Rosetta stone as can be. Meanwhile the chloroquine madness has caused severe shortages and deaths. Doctors started to write large prescriptions for self and family etc to be ahead of the curve leaving pharmacies dry to help patients who need it such as with lupus. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 25, 2020 4:42:07 PM] |
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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1670 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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azithromycin is an antibiotic, which is what Doneske is talking about. I'm sorry, I made a mistake between the various mentioned product names. Indeed, azithromycin is an antibiotic. Yves ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by KerSamson at Mar 25, 2020 4:47:17 PM] |
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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1670 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Azithromycin will be tested in combination with antiviral medicines because antibiotics are foreseen to limit secondary diseases such as pneumonia which are used to appear during a severe covid-19 affection.
----------------------------------------The various investigations are not limited to fight against SARS-CoV-2 only but they try to take a more global approach considering covid-19 as well as subsequently infections. Yves |
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