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AbbVie is donating more than $1 million worth of an HIV drug to help combat the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak in China, the company announced on Friday.
China’s National Health Commission has suggested Aluvia, a pill containing lopinavir and ritonavir, as one of two possible treatments for the symptoms of the virus currently known as 2019-nCoV in the absence of effective antiviral medications. The other part is nebulized alpha-interferon.
A crop of drugmakers — now including J&J — is racing to add more potential weapons to the arsenal.
Government officials are rushing to contain and find solutions for an epidemic that originated in the inland city of Wuhan, Hubei but has since popped up in every other region except for Tibet. The Aluvia regimen — two pills per round, twice daily — was included in the third test version of the “diagnosis and treatment plan for new coronavirus infections.”
Guangfa Wang, a Beijing-based pulmonary expert who contracted the virus after visiting Wuhan for an investigation, told China’s Time-Weekly that he took Aluvia as part of his treatment and it appeared to be effective in his case. Shanghai officials said they have adopted this type of HIV drugs since their first patient..."
https://endpts.com/abbvie-donates-1...is-now-using-to-contain-coronavirus-outbreak/
China’s National Health Commission has suggested Aluvia, a pill containing lopinavir and ritonavir, as one of two possible treatments for the symptoms of the virus currently known as 2019-nCoV in the absence of effective antiviral medications. The other part is nebulized alpha-interferon.
A crop of drugmakers — now including J&J — is racing to add more potential weapons to the arsenal.
Government officials are rushing to contain and find solutions for an epidemic that originated in the inland city of Wuhan, Hubei but has since popped up in every other region except for Tibet. The Aluvia regimen — two pills per round, twice daily — was included in the third test version of the “diagnosis and treatment plan for new coronavirus infections.”
Guangfa Wang, a Beijing-based pulmonary expert who contracted the virus after visiting Wuhan for an investigation, told China’s Time-Weekly that he took Aluvia as part of his treatment and it appeared to be effective in his case. Shanghai officials said they have adopted this type of HIV drugs since their first patient..."
https://endpts.com/abbvie-donates-1...is-now-using-to-contain-coronavirus-outbreak/