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This article does an excellent job at debunking a poorly made conspiracy theory video. Getting the truth out there is important. Despite this, I did find one or
by ytNumbers 6y ago
This article does an excellent job at debunking a poorly made conspiracy theory video. Getting the truth out there is important. Despite this, I did find one or two instance of needless spinning of the truth in this article.
1) I'll admit that it's a silly theory that anyone would create a pandemic to ruin the world economy just to market a vaccine. However, saying it's silly idea because once everyone's had the virus they'll be forever immune to it and therefore won't need a vaccine is equally silly. Science suggests that your antibodies might protect you for roughly two years. So, you'd still pay for a vaccine.
2) A good yardstick for evaluating the accuracy of any COVID-19 article is how they describe hydroxychloroquine. Saying that there are 169 trials of it going on right now, and that it's being prescribed off-label so much that it's getting hard to come by, and then saying there's "no solid evidence, only hope" may be technically accurate, but it's more spin than I can tolerate. Rather than linking to an article from March back when no real studies on it had been completed, it would probably have been better to have the link text be "Doctors are seeing promising hydroxychloroquine results when combined with azithromycin (or tocilizumab)" and to have that link go to the URL below:
https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/221558/coronavirus-updates/yales-covid-19-inpatient-protocol-hydroxychloroquine https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/221558/c...
At this moment in time throughout the world there are some hospitals that provide very promising medicine for COVID-19. However, other hospitals are simply allowing patients to suffer without prescribing any medicine. I can't understand why so much of the media is basically suggesting that those Yale doctors are wasting their time by prescribing hydroxychloroquine. Those front-line Yale doctors just might have more medical expertise than the mainstream media.