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Good on you, Spain. A study like this could never take place in the USA :( Too many powerful people are heavily invested in the belief that there is no treatme
by tboyd47 6y ago
Good on you, Spain. A study like this could never take place in the USA :(
Too many powerful people are heavily invested in the belief that there is no treatment for it.
- vore 6y agoSeems like a ridiculous claim when I'm sure almost absolutely everyone would like to get out of this mess.
- jerf 6y agoIt shouldn't be hard to sit for a moment and think of some people who would certainly like for there not to be a treatment consisting of ~$3-5 worth of off-the-shelf, completely unpatentable medicines and vitamins. There are absolutely some powerful vested interests in not seeing an easy treatment for this disease, or, by the same logic, pretty much any other disease either since there's nothing special about this one. (A not infrequent complaint on Hacker News.) I can't prove they're driving the discourse on treatment for COVID-19, but it sure isn't disproved by what I see happening out there.
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- vore 6y agoThe original claim said "invested in the belief that there is no treatment for it", not "no inexpensive treatments". What you are rebutting is not against what OP is claiming.
- tboyd47 6y agoYou cannot fast-track a vaccine if there are other treatments available. Letting the word out that you can be cured from COVID-19 could make a lot of people lose much money. Both Vitamin D and the other one (it rhymes with byfroxymorophin) are cheap and out of patent. * https://www.fda.gov/patients/fast-track-breakthrough-therapy-accelerated-approval-priority-review/fast-track https://www.fda.gov/patients/fast-track-breakthrough-therapy...
- blithedale 6y agoThere are seven results for American trials found on clinicaltrials.gov for Condition= "COIVD19" and Drug = "VitaminD" run by institutions like Harvard/MGH, Brigham, UNC, Arizona State University, etc. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=vitamin+d&cond=Covid19&age_v=&gndr=&type=&rslt=&Search=Apply https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=vitamin+d&cond=C...
- tboyd47 6y agoThank you. Perhaps my stance is too cynical.
- jeffbee 6y agoI guess except for these 700 studies, 20 of which involve vitamin D. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=Covid19&term=&cntry=US&state=&city=&dist= https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=Covid19&term=&cn...
- rsynnott 6y agoHuge numbers of trials have been done in the US, including some showing promising results (for steroids at least).