Bayer donates 3M chloroquine phosphate tablets for potential Covid-19 treatment

Re:Bayer donates 3M chloroquine phosphate tablets for potent... by tanilama on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:11PM (#22632296)

Worth mentioning that, with China/Korea, now France deploys this drug to frontlines, in the best case scenario, which is the South Korea case, the death rate still sets at 1%, so still 10 times more lethal than flu.

We all want a miracle, but we need to be cautious about it.

I am more curious right now as whether this drug can work as a preventative medication for high risk individual to lower the chance for getting infected, TBH. That will help the medical stuff greatly.

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Re:Bayer donates 3M chloroquine phosphate tablets for potent... by pombrand on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:02PM (#22640496)

South Korea is at 0.6% CFR, the true IFR will be lower than this again due to false negatives and biased testing against symptomatic people.

South Korea will max end up with a IFR of 0.2-0.5%, 2 to 5 times worse than the flu.

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