Thailand Sees Apparent Success In Treating Coronavirus With Drug Cocktail

Bravo Thailand!
It's look like humanity has got now a weapon against the dangerous virus.Hopefully governments will bear the costs to help any poor infected.

Bangkok:

Thai doctors have seen success in treating severe cases of the new coronavirus with combination of medications for flu and HIV, with initial results showing vast improvement 48 hours after applying the treatment, they said on Sunday.
The doctors from Rajavithi Hospital in Bangkok said a new approach in coronavirus treatment had improved the condition of several patients under their care, including one 70-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan who tested positive for the coronavirus for 10 days.
The drug treatment includes a mixture of anti-HIV drugs lopinavir and ritonavir, in combination with flu drug oseltamivir in large doses.
"This is not the cure, but the patient's condition has vastly improved. From testing positive for 10 days under our care, after applying this combination of medicine the test result became negative within 48 hours," Dr. Kriangska Atipornwanich, a lung specialist at Rajavithi, told reporters.
Thailand has recorded 19 cases of coronavirus. Of the Thai patients, eight have recovered and gone home while 11 are still under treatment in hospitals.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/chi...lp-fight-coronavirus-thailand-doctors-2173658

 

Is it possible the patients would have improved without the drugs?

 

Certainly. Some people apparently have little or no symptoms. The ones who are getting really ill and dying are said to be the over 50's and those with other medical problems.

 

Uncle Ferd keepin' coronavirus away...

... with downhome drug cocktail!

 

not wanting to diminish the thai doctors, I observe that the temperature in wuhan now is 6' celsius and in bangkok it's 27' celsius.
i move from wuhan to bangkok is good per se.

i suppose the co. virus is a winter infection.