{"id":1953,"date":"2020-03-28T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2020-03-28T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:07:08","slug":"covid-19-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/covid-19-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians identified a cure:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/484364-russian-drug-treatment-covid19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/484364-russian-drug-treatment-covid19\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russian specialists believe they have come up with an effective way to treat Covid-19 infection using an anti-malarial drug. They say it not only curbs the symptoms of the disease, but also prevents the virus from replicating.<br \/>\nWhile experts around the world have been trying to create a specific vaccine against the virus behind the global pandemic, there have also been attempts to repurpose existing medicines, to help the scores of patients that badly need treatment. Russian pharmacists on Saturday said they have found one such drug \u2013 Mefloquine \u2013 to be effective in stopping Covid-19.<br \/>\nThe drug, which has been around since the 1970s, blocks the degenerative effect Covid-19 has on cells and doesn\u2019t allow the virus to replicate further, the Russian Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) said in a statement. They added that Mefloquine\u2019s immuno-suppressive effect prevents the inflammatory response caused by the disease.<br \/>\nThe Russian medics have been working on <em>\u201can effective and safe scheme to prevent coronavirus infection on the basis of mefloquine, which not only would overcome the peak of incidence but would also effectively control it in the future,\u201d<\/em> the FMBA said.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the Western pharmaceutical companies are looking for something they can keep selling you for decades, for a profit, because the concept of a cure is anathema to them; cures are not profitable, addictions are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians identified a cure: https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/484364-russian-drug-treatment-covid19\/ Russian specialists believe they have come up with an effective way to treat Covid-19 infection using an anti-malarial drug. They say it not only curbs the symptoms of the disease, but also prevents the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/covid-19-cure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}