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Coronavirus: its treatment at the heart of the questions

During its press briefing, now daily, this Wednesday, March 25, the treatment of Covid-19 was at the heart of the questions. For the time being, ongoing studies do not confirm that chloroquine is a safe treatment for patients, according to Sean Casey, WHO expert.

For the time being, there is no specific treatment, no vaccine against Covid-19, but several countries are working on it.
Some have chosen chloroquine, a treatment widely used against malaria, as a preventive as a curative. But for the moment, the scientific community doubts its effectiveness. A hundred studies are currently underway around the world, but none has yet demonstrated the effectiveness of the treatment. “We don’t give a treatment ‘like thatexplains Sean Casey, WHO expert dispatched to Polynesia for the Covid-19 crisis. Ordering a medicine is not a problem, but are healing abroad really linked to treatment? How can we be sure that it is not dangerous for the patient?

Polynesia currently has 25 confirmed cases of Covid-19, only on Tahiti and Moorea, including one hospitalized. Of the 32 people screened in the past 24 hours, none have been positive. “We are at the very beginning, tempers Sean Casey. Let’s say it’s a good sign for the day, but we can’t draw any conclusions. We look at the numbers day by day.

Currently, the treatment administered in Polynesia is a symptomatic treatment, that is to say which treats the symptoms one by one: fever, respiratory syndromes, pneumonia etc.
I have the impression that people follow the advice and these are good trends, very important results and we have to continue like this. “

The fact remains that the Polynesian population as a whole has many associated pathologies: “lagain, no hasty conclusionanswers Sean Casey. IThis is a new virus. We have never seen a local epidemic in a similar context in the Pacific. Yes, there is co-morbidity in Polynesia, but the population is also less aged than in Italy for example, so we cannot know. Our goal today is to protect everyone. “

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