The country has confirmed five infected people, but dozens of suspected cases
MEXICO – Before the arrival of coronavirus to the country, two medications could be used to treat patients presenting withl Covid-19, inform youn Health authorities of the country.
It’s about the hydroxychloroquine, which is commonly used to treat malaria and malaria, and remove, which showed its effectiveness in the treatment of SARShe said Gustavo Reyes Terán, head of the Coordinating Commission of National Institutes of Health and High Specialty Hospitals.
And it is that since it is a strain, new there is no exclusive medicine to treat Covid-19, so the specialist is committed to the aforementioned drugs, especially remdesivir.
“Probably remove it is the one that has the greatest potential, however, to know if a medicine works, even if it has been shown to have activity against viruses, clinical trials are necessary, ”said Reyes Terán.
While the hydroxychloroquine, proposed by a researcher of the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER), is currently under evaluation by ethics committees to guarantee their potential in patients hospitalized for coronavirus.
The head of the Coordinating Commission of National Institutes of Health and High Specialty Hospitals said that two clinical trials are prepared so that when more cases occur, they can be used in them.
“Mexico would be a country more than those that together would obtain a sufficiently representative sample to say if the medicine really works or does not work, said Reyes Terán.
He recalled that researchers from Biotechnology Institute from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Institutes of Respiratory Diseases and Medical Sciences Salvador Zubirán achieved sequence the genome of the first case of Covid-19 That came to Mexico.
He pointed out that once more genomes have been sequenced, it will be possible to know how it affects the health of people according to the generic characteristics of the population and to be able to create a vaccine, although he assured that this would not be in the short term, to achieve it, it would take years and about half.
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