maanantai 20. huhtikuuta 2020

When Tedros Moves His Lips, Beijing Speaks

A Profile of a Chinese Enabler
  • Tedros was voted WHO director-general in 2017, replacing another incompetent Chinese medical prodigy, Dr. Margaret Chan.
  • Tedros is the first WHO director-general without a medical degree.
  • He also has the worst job qualifications in the written history of employment.
  • Just like another underhanded British sponsored PhD, Joseph Mifsud, Tedros’s subsidized academic pedigree also hints of political grooming.



When Tedros Moves His Lips, Beijing Speaks


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On February 15, 2020, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, addressed the Munich Security Conference. At that time, there were only about 60K cases of COVID-19 in China and about 500 in the rest of the world. Tedros was more concerned with misinformation than with containment. In his address, he said:
“We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus, and is just as dangerous.” And if we don’t tackle this, he went on, “we are headed down a dark path that leads nowhere but division and disharmony.”
Even if Tedros was just moving his lips while the ministry of propaganda back in Beijing was doing the actual talking, truer words about the “dark path” have never been spoken. The whole COVID-19 affair with its inflated high mortality rates (currently claimed by the WHO to be 3.9% when in actuality it’s less than 0.5%), artificial shortage to PPE (it exists, it’s just being diverted away from the US by the Chinese), and incendiary MSM coverage, is an information warfare campaign and China is using the WHO, our politicians, and various media outlets as payload delivery vectors.
A Profile of a Chinese Enabler
Tedros was voted WHO director-general in 2017, replacing another incompetent Chinese medical prodigy, Dr. Margaret Chan. Tedros is the first WHO director-general without a medical degree. He also has the worst job qualifications in the written history of employment.
Tedros got his bachelors degree in biology from the University of Asmara in Eritrea. After his graduation, he served in a junior position at the Ministry of Health under the Marxist dictatorship of Mengistu. After the fall of Mengistu in 1991, he showed up in the UK and got a masters degree in Immunology of Infectious Diseases from the University of London. In 2000, he got a PhD in Community Health from the University of Nottingham. His dissertation was titled: “The effects of dams on malaria transmission in Tigray Region, northern Ethiopia.” From the writing style analysis of the treatise, it is unlikely that he wrote his own dissertation.
Just like another underhanded British sponsored PhD, Joseph Mifsud, Tedros’s subsidized academic pedigree also hints of political grooming. This plan apparently derailed when Tedros chose to become a Chinese client instead of continuing to pay homage to his old (and cash-strapped) patrons at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
From 2005-2012, under Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Tedros was the Minister of Health. During his tenure, he covered-up one of the worst outbreaks of cholera in Ethiopian history. Between 2012-2016, he was the Ethiopian foreign minister and was involved in the violent suppression and starvation of the rival Amhara clan. A little known biographical detail about Tedros is that he was the 3rd ranking member of the politburo of the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) Terrorist Organization.
Tedros Adhanom
Image 1: Tedros, his FPLF linkage, and his full-time job as China’s propaganda mouthpiece
Tedros’s rapid rise to the top of the directorship of the WHO began after his collaboration with Bill Gates and the Clinton Foundation. Running some analytics on Tedros’s activity between 1991-2018 shows conduct riddled with fraud, corruption, the worst forms of human rights abuses, and scandals.
I Would Like toThank the Bills for this gig
Image 2
: Tedros with his power base, the Bills
Tedros  lying about the 2016 Ethiopian Army Troops Firing at Peaceful Demonstrators
Image 3
: Tedros lying about the Ethiopian police/army being unarmed and not firing and attacking the crowd at the Irreecha cultural festival in Bishoftu on October 2, 2016.  “Indeed, it is quite clear from the videos that there was no shooting and the police were unarmed.” 
Glaring character flaws and dishonesty aside, an interesting point of convergence between Tedros, China, and the COVID-19 pandemic is that Ethiopia received billions of dollars in Chinese aid over the past few years.

Tedros has personally benefited from this aid in the form of several well-padded foreign bank accounts. In this context, it doesn’t take much effort to figure out why he advised Ethiopian Airlines to continue to fly daily from major Chinese cities. This is while 59 other air carriers from 44 different countries all grounded their flights to and from China. Ethiopian Airlines still insists that it will follow directives from the WHO and continue its daily China flights.
HRC Political Office vs. Donations
Image 4: HRC political office vs. donations to the Clinton Foundation. In 2016, Tedros brokered a $100 million donation to the Clinton foundation. Within a few months, he became the director-general of the WHO. In 2017, Bill Clinton described Tedros as “one of the ablest public servants I ever worked with.
In terms of the Chinese logistical involvement in making the epidemic a pandemic, it just happens that they financed and built the international airport in Addis Ababa. This airport is the ‘gateway’ for travel between China and Africa. It is also a major hub for European and US traffic. Ethiopia’s Bole airport sees, on average, 1500 passengers per day arriving from China. Just like in the case to the wide open Ethiopian route, the same type of heavy china outbound passenger traffic continued long after they knew that the epidemic in Wuhan reached critical infection levels.
Tedros Adhanom Thank You China
Image 5
: Thank you China for ‘bolstering the fight against COVID19’, giving the MHO 20 million dollars, and providing its African clients with endless supply of PPE.
Any discussion about the emerging Chinese infodemic narrative, their involvement in the Reaserch of a synthetic version of the COVID-19 virus, their latest US influence operations, and the WHO complacency in this activity should be viewed through these Tedros related statements:
On using Google and SM to suppress counter WHO narrative“Given the misinformation about the novel coronavirus epidemic, WHO has communicated with some companies including Google to ensure that the public will get the authoritative information from the WHO.”
On international travel restriction to and from China“Travel restrictions [to and from China] can have the effect of increasing fear and stigma, with little public health benefit.”
On quarantine requirements for the sick
“The lockdown of people is unprecedented in public health history, so it is certainly not a recommendation the WHO has made.”
On spreading official Chinese government propaganda
“The WHO highly appreciates the tremendous efforts China has made to contain the epidemic.”
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus China, China, China
Image 6
: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, ‘All good things come from China’
Where is the COVID-19 Messaging Coming From?The majority of the aggressive narrative regarding the lethality of the COVID-19 pandemic and it’s apocalyptic nature is coming from the WHO and a related international network of activist, politicians, big-tech, and reporters. A large number of these ‘activists’ are US based MSM journalists. Running some SIGINT on the sources of the messaging shows clear signs of 3C activity, timing, and a publication strategy. Not surprisingly, the main stated objective in many of these communications is the political targeting of the Trump administration. It is also of note that some of these individuals include politicians, who have been discussing the need for the development of ‘scientific eye candy’ to help support the predictions of a zombie apocalypse.
If you still doubt that this is a coordinated campaign, here is a sampling of the massaging topics that the ‘COVID-19 network’ has generated over the past 10 weeks:
  • Trump has made America a failed state and a third world country
  • The ‘Jewish involvement’ in the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Stock market is collapsing and people will lose all their savings
  • Hospitals will be overwhelmed
  • The reason for PPE shortage in the US is the Trump administration
  • The Corona virus infects and kills both young and old at the same rate
  • Trump is doing nothing to stop the spread of the virus
  • Reference to the Chinese origin of virus is racist and xenophobic
  • The Chinese have done everything to combat the pandemic
  • Trump will declare martial law and eliminate the 2020 elections
  • Need to mobilize Web 2.0 platforms and SMEs to support the narrative
The following is a sampling of three profiles of members of the ‘COVID-19 network’ of contributors from outlets like WaPo, NYT, and the foreign media.
Brian Klass WaPo Reporter and Agent Saboteur ExtraordinaireBrian Klass is an American originally from Minnesota who lives and works in the UK. He is governor Mark Dayton’s former driver. He received his BA from Carleton College, a masters degree in Politics Science from Oxford, and his PhD in Comparative Government from Oxford. He has worked with Soros affiliated organizations and has ties to the British IC. He is a fellow in the department of global politics at the London School of Economics, an assistant professor of global politics at University College London, and a reporter for The Washington Post.
Brian Klass About Me
Image 7: Brian Klass in his own words
Klass knows several of the key players in the Steele Dossier such as Luke Harding and Ellen Nakashima (the reporter behind the allegation that the Russians hacked/leaked the DNC emails). Klass is a frequent television commentator and democratic political consultant, a US campaign adviser, and political analyst of US and foreign policy in mainstream media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and CBS. He is an author of several anti-Trump books including: “The Despot’s Apprentice: Donald Trump’s Attack on Democracy”, the “The Despot’s Accomplice: How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy”, and  the Co-Author of “How to Rig an Election”.  
Brian Klass and Friends
Image 8
: Brian Klass, sample of his linkage and political MSM activity
Ferris Jabr
Image 9: The profile of Ferris Jabr, the ‘authority’ referenced in the February 2020 edits of the Wikipedia entry about the mortality rates of the Spanish Flu (changing them from 10%-20% to 1%-3%), thus, promoting the narrative that COVID-19 is as deadly as the Spanish Flu
Colonel Coşkun Başbuğ
Image 10: 
Coşkun Başbuğ, Retired Turkish intelligence Colonel specialist in psychological warfare in an interview on Turkish TV: “of course, Jews are behind this…”
*** [Update 03/24/2020 ] ***I’ve received several requests for a proof that MSM outlets have coordinated the above mentioned ‘massaging topics’ well in advance. For example, that they would predict false astronomical death rates. The following is a posting by Chris Hayes, a lead reporter with MSNBC that predicts a 50% mortality rate.
MSNBC's Chris Hayes 50 Percent Death Rate from COVID 19
*** [Update 03/25/2020 ] ***’CBS This Morning’ video footage substitution fake. Using imagery from an ER in a hospital in Bergamo Lombardy in Northern Italy and passing it as footage of an ER in a New York city hospital in order to enhance the fear messaging. CBS senior editorial instructions were to ‘strip the Sky News logo from the footage’ so as not to expose its foreign source. The Sky News piece itself is also full of false claims like that the COVID-19 mortality rate is 50%.
CBS Italy Hospital in New York City

*** [Update 03/26/2020 ] ***
America is a failed state (another item in the above mentioned massaging topics). The following is a sample posting by Julia Ioffe, a GQ Magazine reporter who posted a piece titled “Who’s the shithole country now?”.
 America is a failed state
References and SourcingXRVision Sentinel AI Platform – Face recognition, image reconstruction, and object classification
COVID-19 related Chinese influence operations and key early events timeline
Youyou Wang – The profile of a Chinese propaganda officer working as a reporter in the US
Wuhan Virus Response – Internal Chinese COVID-19 communications and supporting artifacts
The Wuhan Virology Lab Linkage – The organizational and financial network
Reverse Engineered Remdesivir – Chinese Patent application for “RedoxivirI”, the reversed engineered Gilead’s drug “Remdesivir”. The patent claim shows that the Chinese authorities knew about the epidemic in December 2019 and were preparing for wide scale outbreak
Wikipedia edits showing an alignment of the Spanish Flu with the COVID-19 mortality rates
Pre-February 22, 2020 Wikipedia Spanish flu article, the “Around the globe” section stats:
The global mortality rate from the 1918–1919 pandemic is not known, but an estimated 10% to 20% of those who were infected died (case-fatality ratio).”
Post-February 22, 2020 Wikipedia Spanish flu article, the “Around the globe” section stats:
“Estimates vary as to the total number who died. An estimate from 1991 says it killed 25–39 million people.[47] A 2005 estimate put the death toll at probably 50 million (less than 3% of the global population)…”
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sunnuntai 12. huhtikuuta 2020

Visualizing The Secret History Of Coronavirus Bioweapon

Visualizing The Secret History Of Coronavirus Bioweapon




Last modified on March 22nd, 2020 at 8:19 pm,

The below visualization The Secret History of Coronavirus Bioweapon is based on GreatGameIndia‘s exclusive report Coronavirus Bioweapon – How China Stole Coronavirus From Canada And Weaponized It
Watch the exclusive interview of Bioweapons Expert Dr. Francis Boyle on Coronavirus Biological Warfare blocked by the Deep State



The Saudi SARS Sample

On June 13, 2012 a 60-year-old Saudi man was admitted to a private hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with a 7-day history of fever, cough, expectoration, and shortness of breath. He had no history of cardiopulmonary or renal disease, was receiving no long-term medications, and did not smoke.

The Canadian Lab

On May 4, 2013, a sample of this Saudi SARS (aka novel Coronavirus) from the very first infected Saudi patient arrived in Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg via Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands who sequenced the virus sample.

Chinese Biological Espionage

In March 2019, in mysterious event a shipment of exceptionally virulent viruses from Canada’s NML ended up in China. The event caused a major scandal with Bio-warfare experts questioning why Canada was sending lethal viruses to China.

Four months later in July 2019, a group of Chinese virologists were forcibly dispatched from the Canadian lab – the only level-4 facility equipped to handle the world’s deadliest diseases where Coronavirus sample from the first Saudi patient was being examined.

Xiangguo Qiu

The scientist who was escorted out of the Canadian lab along with members of her research team is believed to be a Chinese Bio-Warfare agent Xiangguo Qiu.
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu is married to another Chinese scientist Dr. Keding Cheng – the couple is responsible for infiltrating Canada’s NML with many Chinese agents posing as students from a range of Chinese scientific facilities directly tied to China’s Biological Warfare Program.
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu made at least five trips to the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory located only 20 miles away from the Huanan Seafood Market which is the epicenter of the outbreak.
The Canadian investigation is ongoing and questions remain whether previous shipments to China of other viruses or other essential preparations, took place from 2006 to 2018, one way or another.

Frank Plummer Assassination

Meanwhile, in a very strange turn of events, renowned scientist Frank Plummer who received Saudi SARS Coronavirus sample and was working on Coronavirus (HIV) vaccine in the Winnipeg based Canadian lab from where the virus was smuggled by Chinese Biowarfare agents has died in mysterious conditions in Nairobi, Kenya.

Scholars or Spies

The Thousand Talents Plan or Thousand Talents Program was established in 2008 by the central government of China to recognize and recruit leading international experts in scientific research, innovation, and entrepreneurship – in other words to steal western technology.

Weaponizing Biotech

China’s national strategy of military-civil fusion has highlighted biology as a priority, and the People’s Liberation Army could be at the forefront of expanding and exploiting this knowledge. Chinese military’s interest in biology as an emerging domain of warfare is guided by strategists who talk about potential “genetic weapons” and the possibility of a “bloodless victory.”

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keskiviikko 1. huhtikuuta 2020

Doctor’s claims of 100% success treating 699 Cov-19 patients are questioned


  • Chloroquine phosphate, an old-fashioned anti-malarial drug, has shown strong results against COVID-19 infections.
  • According to South Korean and China human treatment guidelines, chloroquine is effective in treating COVID-19.
  • Zinc appears to be the most effective agent in disrupting the virus and preventing the ‘cytokine storm’
  • In the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, a number of deaths due to COVID-19 have been attributable to cytokine release storms.
 

Doctor’s claims of 100% success treating 699 Cov-19 patients are questioned


By M. Dowling | March 31, 202



Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, a general practitioner who treats patients in a Hassidic community, claims to have successfully treated 699 coronavirus patients with success — no deaths and only four hospitalizations.

The doctor used the Hydroxy Chloroquine, Azithromycin and Zinc cocktail. Hitting the virus early and hard, as soon as symptoms appear, is key he claims. By the time the patients are intubated, it’s usually too late.
He shared the results with Rudy Giuliani @RudyGiuliani.

The former New York City mayor also reproduced the results of French virologist Didier Raoult’s study of 80 patients with the cocktail.

The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, who discussed his use of the drug in combination with antibiotics in a Forward article on Tuesday, had been contacted by President Trump’s new chief of staff, Rep. Mark Meadows. A person close to Meadows told the Post that the two had been in touch and White House experts were evaluating Zelenko’s protocol.
Reports also said that Vice President Mike Pence has urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expedite the bureaucratic process so that Dr. Zelenko’s medicine, which also includes antibiotics, zinc, vitamins, and anti-fever medication, will be available for use with coronavirus patients.

IT COULD BE FRAUDULENT

Meanwhile, leaders and community groups in Dr. Zelenko’s hometown of Kiryas Joel have requested he cease publicizing his new medication, or else leave them out of his statements after he wrongly claimed that 90% of the town’s population had coronavirus. The county health commissioner blasted the statement as “irresponsible” in light of the fact that he had only tested 14 patients.
Dr. Zelenko works in a clinic near the Hassidic community, Kiryas Joel.
It seems this would be an easy thing to verify. The difference between hundreds and fourteen patients is rather significant.
Mr. Giuliani, Charlie Kirk, and Laura Ingraham had their tweets promoting the drugs taken down.
Watch:

https://youtu.be/1TJdjhd_XG8 
https://www.independentsentinel.com/doctors-claims-of-100-success-treating-699-cov-19-patients-are-questioned/


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Studies Claim Malaria Drug Chloroquine Effective Against Coronavirus

  • Chloroquine phosphate, an old-fashioned anti-malarial drug, has shown strong results against COVID-19 infections.
  • According to South Korean and China human treatment guidelines, chloroquine is effective in treating COVID-19.
  • Zinc appears to be the most effective agent in disrupting the virus and preventing the ‘cytokine storm’
  • In the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, a number of deaths due to COVID-19 have been attributable to cytokine release storms.









Sure this Coronavirus pandemic is a misery but I’m much 
more optimistic than most at the moment. Here’s one of the reasons: there’s an effective treatment already and it’s available and cheap, according to studies.
Chloroquine phosphate, an old-fashioned anti-malarial drug, has shown strong results against COVID-19 infections in South Korea and China.
As Anthony Watts notes here there have been at least three studies demonstrating its efficacy against the Coronavirus.

Here is one, by James M Todaro and Gregory J Rigano:
According to the summary:
Recent guidelines from South Korea and China report that chloroquine is an effective antiviral therapeutic treatment against Coronavirus Disease 2019.  Use of chloroquine (tablets) is showing favorable outcomes in humans infected with Coronavirus including faster time to recovery and shorter hospital stay.  US CDC research shows that chloroquine also has strong potential as a prophylactic (preventative) measure against coronavirus in the lab, while we wait for a vaccine to be developed.  Chloroquine is an inexpensive, globally available drug that has been in widespread human use since 1945 against malaria, autoimmune and various other conditions.
It concludes:
Chloroquine can both prevent and treat malaria.  Chloroquine can both prevent and treat coronavirus in primate cells (Figure 1 and Figure 2).  According to South Korean and China human treatment guidelines, chloroquine is effective in treating COVID-19.  Given chloroquine’s human safety profile and existence, it can be implemented today in the U.S., Europe and the rest of the world.  Medical doctors may be reluctant to prescribe chloroquine to treat COVID-19 since it is not FDA approved for this use.  The United States of America and other countries should immediately authorize and indemnify medical doctors for prescribing chloroquine to treat COVID-19.  We must explore whether chloroquine can safely serve as a preventative measure prior to infection of COVID-19 to stop further spread of this highly contagious virus.
Here is the second study by Jianjun Gao, Zhenxue Tian, Xu Yang
Abstract:
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus is spreading rapidly, and scientists are endeavoring to discover drugs for its efficacious treatment in China. Chloroquine phosphate, an old drug for treatment of malaria, is shown to have apparent efficacy and acceptable safety against COVID-19 associated pneumonia in multicenter clinical trials conducted in China. The drug is recommended to be included in the next version of the Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Pneumonia Caused by COVID-19 issued by the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China for treatment of COVID-19 infection in larger populations in the future.

Here is the third, in the journal Nature
It’s titled ‘Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit the recently emerged novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in vitro’

Extract:
Chloroquine, a widely-used anti-malarial and autoimmune disease drug, has recently been reported as a potential broad-spectrum antiviral drug.8,9 Chloroquine is known to block virus infection by increasing endosomal pH required for virus/cell fusion, as well as interfering with the glycosylation of cellular receptors of SARS-CoV.10 Our time-of-addition assay demonstrated that chloroquine functioned at both entry, and at post-entry stages of the 2019-nCoV infection in Vero E6 cells (Fig. 1c, d). Besides its antiviral activity, chloroquine has an immune-modulating activity, which may synergistically enhance its antiviral effect in vivo. Chloroquine is widely distributed in the whole body, including lung, after oral administration. The EC90 value of chloroquine against the 2019-nCoV in Vero E6 cells was 6.90 μM, which can be clinically achievable as demonstrated in the plasma of rheumatoid arthritis patients who received 500 mg administration.11 Chloroquine is a cheap and a safe drug that has been used for more than 70 years and, therefore, it is potentially clinically applicable against the 2019-nCoV.

What does this mean?
Essentially it means the end of the nightmare is – or ought to be – much closer than we think.
It will take many, many months before a vaccine is available for COVID-19. In the meantime, this is a very effective stop-gap solution. Not only does it make those critically affected by the virus less likely to die; but it also acts as a prophylactic – that is, it is capable of stopping people from getting the disease in the first place.

The reason that Chloroquine works, I understand from an expert

in viral pandemics, is that enables the body to absorb more zinc.
Zinc appears to be the most effective agent in disrupting the virus and preventing the cytokine storm, which is the deadly phase in which the virus tricks the body’s immune system into attacking its own healthy tissue, with often fatal consequences.


Cytokine release syndrome


Cytokine release syndrome
 (CRS) is a form of systemic inflammatory response syndrome that can be triggered by a variety of factors such as infections and certain drugs.[3] It occurs when large numbers of white blood cells are activated and release inflammatory cytokines, which in turn activate yet more white blood cells. CRS is also an adverse effect of some monoclonal antibody drugs, as well as adoptive T-cell therapies.[4][5] Severe cases have been called cytokine storms.[2] When occurring as a result of drug administration, it is also known as an infusion reaction.[1]


CRS is a form of systemic inflammatory response syndrome and is an adverse effect of some drugs.[4]


The first reference to the term cytokine storm in the published medical literature appears to be by Ferrara et al. in 1993 in a discussion of graft vs. host disease; a condition in which the role of excessive and self-perpetuating cytokine release had already been under discussion for many years.[14][15] The term next appeared in a discussion of pancreatitis in 2002, and in 2003 it was first used in reference to a reaction to an infection.[14]
It is believed that cytokine storms were responsible for the disproportionate number of healthy young adult deaths during the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed 50 to 100 million people.[16] In this case, a healthy immune system may have been a liability rather than an asset. Preliminary research results from Taiwan also indicated this as the probable reason for many deaths during the SARS epidemic in 2003.[17] Human deaths from the bird flu H5N1 usually involve cytokine storms as well.[18] Cytokine storm has also been implicated in hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.[19]
In 2006, a medical study at Northwick Park Hospital in England resulted in all 6 of the volunteers given the drug TGN1412 becoming critically ill, with multiple organ failure, high fever, and a systemic inflammatory response.[20] Parexel, a company conducting trials for pharmaceutical companies, in one of its own documents, wrote about the trial and said TGN1412 could cause a cytokine storm—the dangerous reaction the men experienced.[21]

In the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, a number of deaths due to COVID-19 have been attributable to cytokine release storms.[22][23][24]



Why isn’t there more excitement about this readily available treatment?
One possible reason is that chloroquine is a generic drug to which no pharmaceutical company owns the patent. Big Pharma’s money and lobbying power will strive to persuade governments – and markets – that the only viable solution to the coronavirus is a vaccine. But in the short term this simply isn’t true. Nor is it clear to me that the global economy is going to survive on lockdown for as long as it takes to develop and test that vaccine – which may not even prove effective in any case.
Note that point in the Todaro and Rigano paper about the need for FDA approval. There is no time to waste.
Medical staff shows on February 26, 2020 at the IHU Mediterranee Infection Institute in Marseille, packets of a Nivaquine, tablets containing chloroquine and Plaqueril, tablets containing hydroxychloroquine, drugs that has shown signs of effectiveness against coronavirus. - The Mediterranee infection Institute in Marseille based in La Timone Hospital is at the forefront of the prevention against coronavirus in France. (Photo by GERARD JULIEN / AFP) (Photo by GERARD JULIEN/AFP via Getty Images)
Medical staff shows at the IHU Mediterranee Infection Institute in Marseille, packets of a Nivaquine, tablets containing chloroquine and Plaqueril, tablets containing hydroxychloroquine, drugs that has shown signs of effectiveness against coronavirus. 
– The Mediterranee infection Institute in Marseille based in La Timone Hospital is at the forefront of the prevention against coronavirus in France. 
UPDATE: The Stanford University School of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences Researchers told the Huffington Post that they were not associated with the study conducted by James Todaro and Gregory Rigano. This story has been edited to reflect that.

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 2020 Mar 16;14(1):72-73. doi: 10.5582/bst.2020.01047. Epub 2020 Feb 19.

Breakthrough: Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of COVID-19 associated pneumonia in clinical studies.

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus is spreading rapidly, and scientists are endeavoring to discover drugs for its efficacious treatment in China. Chloroquine phosphate, an old drug for treatment of malaria, is shown to have apparent efficacy and acceptable safety against COVID-19 associated pneumonia in multicenter clinical trials conducted in China. The drug is recommended to be included in the next version of the Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Pneumonia Caused by COVID-19 issued by the National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China for treatment of COVID-19 infection in larger populations in the future.

KEYWORDS:

2019-nCoV; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; chloroquine; pneumonia
PMID:
 
32074550
DOI: 10.5582/bst.2020.01047
[Indexed for MEDLINE] 
Free full text

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550


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