> If this cuts deaths by 1/3rd That's not what the article says: > It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cu

> If this cuts deaths by 1/3rd That's not what the article says: > It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth. That's the optimistic way of phrasing it. Let's look at the reality. From the article: > For patients on ventilators, it cut the risk of death from 40% to 28%. > For patients needing oxygen, it cut the risk of death from 25% to 20% 28% of patients on vents (1 in 4!) still died. 20% of patients on oxygen (1 in 5!) still died. Another thing: this is not going to help anyone who isn't in the hospital. You could still drop dead of a heart attack or stroke while at home with a "mild" case of the virus. It could happen even if you're asymptomatic. And the people who the drug does help are still at risk for significant, possibly lifelong complications. > The death rate looks basically like the annual flu with this drug No, it doesn't. > particularly when we consider that it will just be one bad season then fairly minor from then on "One bad season" will be 1-2 million dead from the virus here in America, plus more people who die as the healthcare is overwhelmed and ceases to function. Please stop pretending this isn't a serious disease.