A divisive drug touted by Donald Trump may hold the secrets to stopping the spread of COVID-19, and its potential is absolutely huge.
There’s a 50-50 chance that what she takes is hydroxychloroquine, a controversial drug touted by Donald Trump, that could potentially stop millions of people around the world getting COVID-19.
It could protect Australians, and people around the world, who are most at risk from COVID-19 including aged care residents and staff, meatworks staff and healthcare workers.As a nurse practitioner at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital Emergency Department she has been on Australia’s frontline against the coronavirus.“We don’t always know and it can be quite confronting at times not always knowing what we’re dealing with,” she told news.com.au.
Within days, the number of prescriptions for the drug skyrocketed even though evidence it could treat the disease was non-existent., is looking at it from a different angle. However, his team is looking at whether it can be used as something called a pre-exposure prophylaxis, which means it could work as a preventive before someone comes into contact with somebody with COVID-19.“The rationale behind this is that many drugs work very well in preventing people from getting a disease, but when they have it, it fails to work,” he said.
“It’s really important to dissociate the hearsay and the politicisation of the drug from the real evidence. The evidence is in the test tube, but we really need it tested on people. President Trump repeatedly proclaimed that hydroxychloroquine could prevent or treat COVID-19. Picture: Jim Watson / AFP“If you give it to the wrong person they could get into trouble. But obviously we’re being incredibly careful in making sure we’re giving the drug under the strictest medical supervision. The reason being is that we haven’t proven the drug works.”
“That politicisation of the drug hasn’t been helpful at all,” she said. “The most important thing we need here is evidence-based therapy and that’s why we’re having a clinical trial. The incentive to discover whether the drug works against COVID-19 is huge given it is cheap, readily available and shows good signs of working against virus.Prof Pellegrini said there were many different scenarios the drug could be used in to prevent infection, from overseas travel to protecting workers and staff in aged care homes.
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