No approved treatments yet for COVID-19: WHO


Geneva, May 16 (IANS): The World Health Organization (WHO) said that a number of treatments are under clinical trials for the treatment of COVID-19, but none of those were yet approved.

"There are hundreds of clinical trials that are underway, and the reason we need to wait for the results of these studies is because they are evaluating how these medicines, how these drugs work, in terms of either preventing infection, preventing someone from progressing to severe disease, preventing death and how safe they are, do they have any side effects," Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead for the WHO's Health Emergencies Program, said on Friday in a press conference in Geneva, Xinhua news agency reported.

"Right now, WHO has launched the 'Solidarity Trial' which is a clinical trial focusing on some drugs, some therapeutics, to look at whether or not these are safe and effective for COVID-19. There are more than 2,500 patients enrolled in this multi-site clinical trial," she said.

"And it will take some time before we have full answers to which treatments work, but right now we don't have any approved treatments for COVID-19." she added.

Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, stressed the importance of proper process to ensure safety.

"And there's a very very well tested process of doing this, so it's really important that we encourage innovation, we encourage people to be looking for solutions, but then as those solutions potentially become available, we need to put them through the proper process in the interest of safety, in the interest of efficacy and in order to make sure that we first do no harm," he said.

  

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  • Dr MICHAEL GONSALVES, BANGALORE

    Sat, May 16 2020

    Dear WHO

    Why only depend on Vaccination , Immunization , Hormonal therapy ....? As a Responsible institute did u explain adverse effect after these above treatment..? it will cost in thousands, lacks. & whats aftermath effects of these method of treatments ..? adverse effects - bulging of adipose cells ( OBESITY ) , MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITIES , GERD ( GASTRITIS ) SOMNAMBULISM ( SLEEP DISORDER), URINARY INFECTIONS , HAIR FALL, ANEMIA ( LOWERS HEMOGLOBIN -IRON) , HEART PALPITATIONS, DRYNESS OF SKIN & lot more . My point is very simple

    Above all treatments are controlled by Drug industries . they are the one controlling Hospitals , Doctors , laboratory.. etc they pump the money by Initial funding like conducting CONFERENCES , FREE MEDICAL CAMPS , CSR PROGRAMS , especially by giving complimentary benefits to Doctors .

    Why dont you support the system called Homeopathy , Ayurveda . Unanai , Naturopathy. Sidda , Yoga therapy . there are lot of professionals especially in INDIA . These are the non toxic method of treatments . Support theses professionals . We are equivalent OR more knowledgeable . coz we study alopathic pharmacology along with expert in our treatments

    If anyone has got any clarification please call me between 1 pm to 3 pm
    Dr George Michael
    FCH clinic
    Bangalore / Mangalore / Udupi
    Ph- 8971564335 / 8277165971

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  • John, Mangalore

    Sat, May 16 2020

    Medicine must be there but to force vaccination which is easier for general public also big business for bigpharma, WHO. But again mutations and new virulent strains can be used again to create similar to current situation of fear and control and then need multiple inoculations???

    Elites, WHO, communists have managed big achievements, to close religious institutions (temporarily??), mask and social distance(ing) control, food control, work control, under surveillance, is it a pilot run or something big cooking?

    It is inscribed on Georgia Guidestones Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. (8 billion to 500 million ??) Elites are planning for the same??

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, May 16 2020

    Entire World is shooting in the Dark ...

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  • Dev, Mangalore

    Sat, May 16 2020

    W H O...?
    World Health or Hell Organisation?
    Every doctor & scientist knows there is only symptomatic treatment of any viral infections, only our body's immune system eliminates the virus from our body. Any interference through chemicals injected into the system would make that process chaotic & toxic to the whole system causing deaths from Adverse Drug Reactions than the viral infection itself.
    Fever is the best immune response to stop the virus from multiplying & proliferate but sadly our present treatment is to bring that down & help the virus prolong or overwhelm the system itself. Now many doctors will say fever at certain range is bad or more dangerous, but the immune system knows how to bring it down as it has started it for a purpose.
    During these Pandemics doctors get to use different drugs lying around with zero proven remedy on patients who are kept inside hospitals like in detention centers of holocaust. These human guinea pigs if they die due to adverse drug reaction are labelled as covid deaths & if they survive by the effort of their immune system despite all the chemicals they are injected into ,then those chemical drugs are hailed as they cured them instead of acknowledging the immune system success in doing so.
    Time to bring in Ayurvedic or other systems too in treating these patients, & doctors of allopathy only should monitor their health parameters & only when the patients are critical they should step in, otherwise combination of allopathy & any other drugs would interfere in each others work or neutralize their effectiveness.
    There are vitamins & trace minerals which help the body's immune system in allopathy too, better concentrate on them as firs line of treatment as they have zero side effects unlike HIV, Malaria, Ebola drugs & if this method proves in aged or immune suppressed patients then India should frame its own protocol than depend on foreign organisations which only rely on allopathy instead of focusing on welfare of the patients

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