Breaking News! The same Antiretroviral, Antimalarial Drug that is used to treat HIV/AIDS, is Helping COVID-19 Patients

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A surprising new study found that the [same antimalarial drug is used to treat patients with HIV-1] hydroxychloroquine, is helping Covid-19 patients better survive in the hospital (See the full CNN report @ https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1278964201789194240?s=21) 

Unfortunately, the CNN report or the study didn’t go as far as to say that it’s the same drug with properties that can be utilized and is being utilized in antiretroviral drugs/treatment to treat people with HIV-1, but while reading and doing some research I made the discovery and updated the headline and the story. Here’s whats happening. 
We are already aware of: 

An HIV-fighting strategy might help against COVID-19: Drugs and plasma could prevent infection before vaccines are available, 

And acvording to Nicole Westman in the Verge:

Though many people are pinning their hopes on a COVID-19 vaccine, another option is available: preventive treatment. At a Senate hearing this week, Anthony Fauci noted that a vaccine — which is probably months or years away — isn’t the only way to protect someone from a life-threatening virus. (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/15/21258490/coronavirus-vaccines-hiv-prep-protection-malaria-drugs-plasma)

But the real story is this, that I have always inquired about people with compromised immune system such as people with HIV and AIDS and other auto-immune diseases... to find out how they are dealing with the  COVID-19 virus, since they were already on drugs bearing similar properties and we have not heard any reports of AIDS-HIV patients who are undergoing antiretroviraltrearment as having any probes dealing with the pandemic.  Because, Hydroxychloroquine is an antimalarial and antiretroviral agent used to treat patients with autoimmune diseases, and to suppress (HIV-1). 

The fact is HIV infection can cause a person’s immune system to become overactive (called immune hyperactivation). Immune hyperactivation can damage the immune system and cause HIV to progress faster.8–13 Hydroxychloroquine may be able to reduce immune hyperactivation.8,9. 

Antiretroviral drugs such as hydroxychloroquine contains substances that help to activate, boost, or restore normal immune function.

It is with this knowledge that our medical professionals are taking the necessary precautions to avert the possibility of HIV patients sharing their antiretroviral drugs to anyone thinking that they will be immune from COVID-19 or be at a greater advantage. What I found interesting was what the news reports and medical professionals weren’t saying. They’ve been saying that it is found that hydroxychloroquine and some other unnamed drugs could help. What is that “other” unmentioned anonymous drug that can help? Is it not the HIV antiretroviral drug? The medical field won’t say it out loud as they’re conducting studies to ensure that the drug is safe for people who are not infected with HIV. That is the reason for the delay or fears. That the drug may harm those who are not diagnosed with HIV as the antiretroviral drug is specifically for people with HIV or some auto-immune disease. 

There was a study done in March when medical experts were still trying to understand the virus and how to treat against it, where it was determined that 

HIV drugs didn’t work as a coronavirus treatment in a clinical trial

Researchers had hoped that antiviral drugs used to treat HIV might also work against the coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2. But the HIV drugs didn’t stop viral replication as measured by testing for RNA, the virus’s genetic material. The problem with that study was that Researchers didn’t know whether people who got the drugs produced fewer infectious viruses and they were still oblivious about the drug and what mechanisms or properties work as they were still studying the virus. 
But today we are at a breakthrough, it is the hydroxychloroquine agents or hiv drugs with those properties that works against very ill patients and may mean the difference between life and death. 


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