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Zithromax is an antibiotic. Which is useless against a virus. And why are doctors giving untested treatments to patients?

• Khelavaster 6y ago
  >Zithromax is an antibiotic. Which is useless against a virus. "Azithromycin Induces Anti-Viral Responses in Bronchial Epithelial Cells" has over 220 citations. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20150207/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20150207/)
• nl 6y ago
  To be clear, I think this is a pretty bad "study". But there are plenty of reasons why antibiotics are given to people with Covid-19 to deal with secondary infections. > And why are doctors giving untested treatments to patients? This seems a pretty bad-faith comment. In the early days of COVID-19 there was no "tested" treatment, so doctors use reasoning to try to find something. This is a completely normal thing to do.
  • bena 6y ago
    Throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks is a good way to get people killed. Doctors are not researchers and they shouldn't be. It's not a bad-faith comment.
    • nl 6y ago
      This is all news to the medical profession. They have always and are trained to deal with novel situations by trying treatments based on inferring likely response based in symptoms.