Doctors in Thailand think they may have come up with a treatment for coronavirus, Reuters reports, although it’s far too early to say conclusively that they’ve found a cure for the deadly infection.
Dr. Kriangska Atipornwanich, a lung specialist at Rajavithi hospital in Bangkok, told reporters that a cocktail of large doses of the anti-HIV drugs lopinavir and ritonavir, in combination with the flu drug oseltamivir, showed promise in a 70-year-old female patient from Wuhan, the Chinese city where the virus is believed to have emerged.
The woman had been hospitalized at Rajavithi for ten days. Doctors gave her the treatment, and in 48 hours, not only was her condition improving, but her tests for the virus were coming back negative.
Dr. Atipornwanich is clear that the results are only preliminary.
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