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The relevance is that the President got wall to wall media coverage for being sick. And his is in a demographic (old, overweight, male) that puts him at an extr
by war1025 6y ago
The relevance is that the President got wall to wall media coverage for being sick. And his is in a demographic (old, overweight, male) that puts him at an extremely elevated risk for serious illness.
Doctors will do their job and scientists will do their job, and in the end decisions will be made based on the results of studies.
That doesn't negate the enormous amount of positive press that this event will give to the treatment.
Either way, it should be a signal that we are getting much better at treating the illness. Back in April, Boris Johnson, who is basically a Trump equivalent, but 20 years younger, spent a week in the hospital in very rough shape.
The news on Cornavirus is in trending significantly in the positive direction, which is really all that matters.
- sk5t 6y ago> The news on Cornavirus is in trending significantly in the positive direction Positive in terms of increasing case numbers, yes.
- war1025 6y ago> Positive in terms of increasing case numbers, yes. As the number of people I know who have caught it grows, I have to say I don't really see that as a negative thing. Most of the new cases are in the young-adult demographic. Almost universally they suffer no long term complications and the most unpleasant part of the sickness is being confined to their home for a week and a half. Number of confirmed cases is the wrong metric. We know very well by now who is at elevated risk. If you are not in the elevated risk category, and you are able to avoid those who are at elevated risk, then there is very little for you to worry about.
- timmytokyo 6y ago>Almost universally they suffer no long term complications and the most unpleasant part of the sickness is being confined to their home for a week and a half. Citation please. As a relatively young person suffering from the long-term consequences of this disease, I am infuriated whenever anyone says something so false.
- henry_bone 6y ago> ... I am infuriated whenever anyone says something so false. Citation please. Is it actually false? Your one case does not a fact make. What percentage of confirmed cases in people under the age of, say, 40, result in long term complications? Edit: Corrected punctuation and replaced "statistical fact" with just "fact".
- nicoburns 6y agoPercentage of confirmed cases is the wrong statistic to be looking at here. Because a lot of these cases aren't even being tracked due to not having life threatening symptoms, but never the less seem to result in long-term symtoms that have a significant impact on people's lives.
- atlasunshrugged 6y agoWhy would there be positive press for this treatment, the President was treated by a different therapeutic from another company. From the article "The results also appear roughly similar to those Regeneron presented last week of its own cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies. Last Friday, President Trump was treated with the Regeneron monoclonal antibodies."
- war1025 6y agoIn Trump's video statement he said, "I was treated with Regeneron. Eli Lilly has something very similar they are working on as well. They call them therapeutics, but I view them as honestly a miracle." That is positive press.
- rsynnott 6y agoHowever, he did end up in a hospital, on oxygen, and they gave him dexamethasone (which isn't something they do just for fun). So it's not a wonderful advertisement for reducing hospitalization, really (many people who end up in hospital wouldn't need dexamethasone).