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"The suggestion on the table is to give this drug to extremely ill patients" No. Likely needs to be given closer to onset of symptoms. "The suggestion was to
by pbreit 7y ago
"The suggestion on the table is to give this drug to extremely ill patients"
No. Likely needs to be given closer to onset of symptoms.
"The suggestion was to massively prescribe it."
No. The suggestion is to generate more evidence as fast as possible since it looks promising.
Cannot wait for full clinical trials. 1500+ deaths per day in the mean time.
Why are you fighting it so hard? If this is a useful treatment, don't you want us to find out? Let the doctors do their thing.
- jdhn 7y agoI feel like this thread and the arguments contained in it are a microcosm of what's going on in the world at large right now, and also explains why people were so slow to respond. Perfect is the enemy of good, after all.
- akiselev 7y agoIn medicine, bad is the enemy of good. Improperly studied medicine rushed into a clinical setting can make things worse and are perfectly capable of making things worse on a grand scale, regardless of how terrible people's understanding of statistics and variance are. Doctors have the authority in many countries to prescribe it off label based on their own review of the evidence and their patient's consent. That's the best we can do right now without risking something much worse.