Private Message from
Quantum who is in the pharmacy business:
“Quercetin is probably a good choice, along with Vit C, for prevention and treatment of coronavirus infection. If you have time, you could post the info on the forum ( you can also translate this link that is in French:
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1538011/quercetine-coronavirus-michel-chretien-ircm-montreal-patrice-roy ) “
You may all want to research Quercetin further?
A start:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuercetinDemo
QUANTUM’S ARTICLE AUTO-TRANSLATED BY GOOGLE:
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Radio-Canada
Posted on February 24, 2020
The Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) may have found a substance that could stop the coronavirus. Branch manager Patrice Roy met with Dr. Michel Chrétien, who heads the team behind the discovery.
If there is one area on which Canada-China relations are not experiencing pitfalls at this time, it is that of medical research. Dr. Michel Chrétien and his team think they have discovered that a vegetable substance could act in a preventive and curative way on the coronavirus. It is quercetin.
It’s a plant! We could grow it in our gardens! [...] One finds some in onions, in garlic ...
Michel Chrétien, doctor and researcher at the IRCM
Dr. Chrétien says that the Chinese authorities are convinced that quercetin should be tested on patients infected with the coronavirus. If it doesn't work, at least we will have tried. But it is likely to work. It’s so serious. It's a pandemic now, says the researcher.
He explains that this substance is already used to treat and prevent Ebola as well as the Zika virus. In 2014, we had a crucial experiment with the national microbiology laboratory in Winnipeg. They were the only ones capable of handling the Ebola virus.
In this context, the clinical trial process may begin shortly in China, since tablets had already been created and approved by the FDA, the American regulatory agency. A small Swiss pharmaceutical company had done all the work of preparing high-dose quercetin [...], says the researcher. We have someone who has millions of pills at their disposal and who is with us to give China the necessary medicines. We have them.
A laboratory workstation.
A workstation of the Montreal Clinical Research Institute
PHOTO: RADIO-CANADA
The clinical trials will be carried out on 1,000 patients in Wuhan, a city in central China where the epidemic started, as soon as the tablets are sent there. Boxes of drugs are expected to leave Switzerland soon, according to Dr. Chrétien.
We are going to establish here [at the IRCM laboratory] a permanent video communication room to be in contact 24 hours a day with the Chinese. The results will be reported to us every day, he adds.
The Chinese doctor who ensures that he maintains a link with the Canadian team of researchers in this file is a former intern of the Institute, in addition to being a personal friend of Michel Chrétien, which facilitates the process. Zhu Chen also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Montreal in 2012.
A ridiculous cost
If the clinical trials generate positive results, billions of tablets will have to be produced to meet the demand, with patients having to ingest four a day.
Treating a patient with quercetin will cost only $ 1.50 a day, according to Dr. Chrétien, while the new antivirals [that patients are currently using] cost $ 1,000 a day.
The researcher is however cautious about the viability of quercetin and says he is very worried. Day by day, it gets worse and worse.
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