SciShow: Our Best Bets for Treating COVID-19

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Content of the Lesson: While this episode was in production, preliminary data from a clinical trial for remdesivir was leaked to the press; while the results look promising, it’s important to note the researchers haven’t formally published their results yet. https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/16/early-peek-at-data-on-gilead-coronavirus-drug-suggests-patients-are-responding-to-treatment/ About a combination of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va6j4JITJoE our COVID-19 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsNB4peY6C6IQediwz2GzMTNvm_dMzr47 It will probably be at least a year before we have a vaccine for COVID-19. But in March, the WHO launched a megatrial tolook at four treatment options for the virus. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A.Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.healthline.com/health/coronavirus-vs-sars https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/who-launches-global-megatrial-four-most-promising-coronavirus-treatments https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/finally-some-good-news-about-ebola-two-new-treatments-dramatically-lower-death-rate https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/396/eaal3653?utm_campaign=toc_stm_2017-06-28&et_rid=17050501&et_cid=1410533 https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/16/remdesivir-surges-ahead-against-coronavirus/ https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1910993 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422030200X https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-020-0282-0?fbclid=IwAR3c5iy9h65X1cnkrL6i6fJcWwi0ygN1LtI67SkcgREM4DyxxAcPauRuf5w https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/did-experimental-drug-help-us-coronavirus-patient https://www.gilead.com/purpose/advancing-global-health/covid-19/remdesivir-clinical-trials https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/06/gilead-remdesivir-data-coming-soon/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3024444/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2621403/ https://jvi.asm.org/content/88/20/11886 https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/212/12/1904/2911949 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001282 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1386653203003251?via%3Dihub https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13940-6 Image Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2#/media/File:Novel_Coronavirus_SARS-CoV-2.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroquine#/media/File:Chloroquine.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroquine#/media/File:Chloroquine.svg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/abstract-molecule-network-background-gm1182803723-332285822 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopinavir#/media/File:Lopinavir_ball-and-stick.png https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/wireless-network-connection-technology-background-concept-hexagon-shapes-pattern-and-gm1073060068-287201199 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon_beta-1a https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/laboratory-gm1125655473-296013301


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