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> Why not just do those things and prove to the people it doesn't work? None of those things are of any significant risk compared to already having COVID, and l
by acherion 5y ago
> Why not just do those things and prove to the people it doesn't work? None of those things are of any significant risk compared to already having COVID, and let the person have some medical autonomy... if they're going to die anyway, let the family know they tried what they wanted to try.
The problem with this is that in these people's minds, if <insert whatever magical cure to covid they know works> doesn't work, it's always some other factor than the cure itself that is causing it to not work. It doesn't prove to these people that those things don't actually work.
If the hospital administers the 10,000mg of Vitamin C, which won't work (according to what we know from medical experts), when the patient dies his family would just claim that the hospital didn't give him the right dosage, or they should've administered the vitamin C earlier, or the hospital claims that they administered the vitamin C but really didn't administer anythiung, or what they administered was not the right vitamin C / was not vitamin C at all. It doesn't cross these people's minds that maybe vitamin C doesn't work. Swap vitamin C with hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin or whatever other covid cure flavour of the month it currently is.
- hnthrow137 5y agoFor those reading, high dose intravenous vitamin C is used as part of cancer therapies at institutions that provide integrative medicine (chemo + dietary/exercise advice, supplements, and off-label pharmaceuticals). Here is a paper from one such institution published in a highly respected journal (Breast Journal) that found a significant increase in the median survival rate for women with metastatic breast cancer. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19470134/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19470134/