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By the time we have lots of it, we will have good statistics on demographics of people most likely to need it, so you could make educated guesses and still see
by roywiggins 7y ago
By the time we have lots of it, we will have good statistics on demographics of people most likely to need it, so you could make educated guesses and still see a benefit.
- randcraw 7y agoTo offer some perspective, in Montgomery County, just north of Philly (a suburban metro county harder hit than most), 10% of positive tests have been admitted to hospital, and 2.6% of positive tests have gone on ventilators. So the subpopulation needing remdesivir is probably less than 5% of the positive cases (or 1250 of the 25,000 who tested positive here). BTW, the county population is 900,000.
- koheripbal 7y agoRight, but it isn't a random sampling of that population that ends up on ventilators. For men over 65 with hypertension, it's about 50% of those who test positive. ...so a targeted application of anti-virals is definitely worthwhile.