Starting this Friday in Cali, the drug Ivermectin will begin to be used to treat patients with covid-19, Mayor Jorge Iván Ospina announced. He explained that the experimental treatment will be applied after the good experience reported in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

According to the official, they will start with 10,000 thousand doses, and if the results are as positive as in other cities, more will be applied.

"We are going to distribute 10,000 doses of Ivermectin starting tomorrow among the risk groups. Ivermectin is an antiparasitic and there are highly effective in vitro results against the virus," he said.

This seems like a better use of the limited doses (Cali has 2.8 million people) than Valle del Cauca's plan to use ivermectin prophylactically with "positive patients who are at home with mild symptoms or who do not have symptoms and the contacts of these people, especially people over 60 years of age"

The drug would be used in patients who are in the early stages of the disease, in order not to aggravate symptoms and avoid severe cases that require admission to intensive care units.

"In conversations with the mayor of Guayaquil, Peruvian infectologists and some doctors, they tell me about the successes they have had with the use of Ivermectin. We are going to distribute it to all positive patients and suspicious patients ”, added Ospina.

Interesting that Columbia is consulting Peru!

According to the Caleño president, the medical recommendation is that each patient with coronavirus be treated with three drops per kilogram of the substance.

"We are going to use a dose of three drops per kilogram and we are going to do it so that there is no consensus from the scientific community. This could reduce the referral to the ICU and could allow for greater efficacy in the treatment, "he indicated.

How many mcg in a drop?

The mayor acknowledged that it is a determination that involves some risks, but points out that there is sufficient evidence to believe that it will have good results in Cali, due to what happened in cities with conditions similar to those of patients in the capital of Valle del Cauca.

This 2020-07-09 article indicates that they are just starting to use ivermectin in Valle del Cauca. ??

On May 25, the Ministry of Health determined to suspend the use of chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, and lopinavir (ritonavir) in cases of covid-19, on the recommendation of the Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases, Acin, and the Institute of Technological Evaluation in Health, Iets.

Wow: HCQ is out!

At that time, a study was published that suggested that none of the medications represented benefit for treated patients and that it could in fact increase the risk of death in some cases.

The Surgesphere Lancet article?

Scientists instead proposed the use of Remdesivir or Ivermectin.

# Can there be side effects in the treatment?

The president assured that this drug could reduce the viral load and the lethal behavior of the hyperinflammation produced by the coronavirus.

The decision is supported by a group of experts with previous experiences in Peru, Ecuador and Cuba, which will be used to assist the group with Caleños doctors in charge of applying the treatment in Cali.

Ospina also emphasized that this medication does not work to prevent the spread of coronavirus, but rather prevents the viral load from manifesting severely.

#What is it? The substance is commonly used to treat parasite infections. In the case of managing head or pubic lice, it is administered locally, applying directly to the scalp. In the case of scabies and for other conditions caused by parasites such as onchocerciasis, Ivermectin is administered orally.

It is also an antiparasitic medicine that is used to treat diseases such as strongylodiasis, an infection caused by a parasite that lodges in the intestine. Similarly, it is used to control onchocerciasis.

According to the last epidemiological bulletin of the Departmental Health Secretariat, 9,528 cases of covid-19 have been registered in Cali, and 330 patients died of that number.

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Here is another article about applying 10,000 doses in Cali.

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The entity reported {that a} research on using Ivermectin in sufferers was approved in Cali. The assertion says that “Invima authorised a medical research within the metropolis of Cali that includes using the drug Ivermectin in grownup sufferers with signs related to covid-19, led by the Heart for Research of Pediatric Infectology SAS, (CEIP), and At present, it’s the solely establishment approved in Colombia to hold out human medical research with this drug. ”

Former governor and physician Dilian Francisca Toro, who heads the Committee of Specialists on Well being, (Copesa), stated that the infectologists agreed and beneficial remedy with ivermectin at an early stage for covid constructive sufferers.

The Mayor of Cali, Jorge Ivan Ospina, stated that from this Friday, July 10, the doses can be distributed within the subject by cell hospitals, to folks with constructive, asymptomatic sufferers and people suspected of the virus.

In making the choice, the Mayor reported that top efficacy in vitro research had been taken under consideration. He additionally spoke with infectologists from Peru and CostaRica and with the Mayor of Guayaquil (Ecuador), Cynthia Viteri, who’s in control of a metropolis that was hit exhausting by the virus and is now an instance in that nation within the emergency management of the coronavirus.

Ospina, who’s a physician, stated there’s a outlined drop dose and famous {that a} separate course of can be achieved with a mix of ivermectin and one other medicine.

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