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by blhack 7y ago
This hospital ship was meant to house non-covid patients. It's meant as surge capacity for the NY hospital system. Of course it isn't full yet. Of course it isn't full of covid patients right now, it isn't ever supp
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by blhack 7y ago
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zoom-cloud-meetings/id54650530... Yes it is.
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by blhack 7y ago
Do you think this implication is realistic: A French infectious disease expert publishes a paper which outlines the results of a small clinical trial and which is in agreement with anecdotal experiences in China, and with evidence gathered
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by blhack 7y ago
> We do know that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine can have significant side effects, especially if combined with azithromycin. What side effects? Could you expand on this for a layman? And at what doses and are there drug interactio
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by blhack 7y ago
Why is your money on that drug?
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by blhack 7y ago
From that first article: >national authorities including French government decided to deploy chloroquine as the medicine to treat COVID19. All based on Trump’s tweets which in turn was based on Fox News promotion of this study by Raoult.
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by blhack 7y ago
To those who think this is bad: why? What is the downside to trying this, or at least manufacturing a stockpile, that all of the health officials seem to be missing. Essentially: if you could talk directly to the FDA, what new information
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FDA emergency use auth for the use of hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19(fda.gov)
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by blhack 7y ago
Because China has been selling fakes: https://www.businessinsider.com/coroanvirus-holland-recalls-...
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by blhack 7y ago
The spirit of all of this inspiring, however: I worry that a lot of these efforts are actually going to be detrimental to their intended causes. We're talking about potentially needing hundreds of thousands of these things. That&#x2
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by blhack 7y ago
Who are you arguing with that you thinks we shouldn't be doing clinical trials? Why do you think these things are "insane"?
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by blhack 7y ago
Okay well you're going to have to tell the FDA, the CDC, the WHO and many other equivalent organizations all over the world that.
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by blhack 7y ago
Yes, exactly like the man in the article. People are trying to make this into some political, partisan fight, which causes people’s trust in experts to be eroded. There’s a whole story about this called the boy who cried wolf.
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by blhack 7y ago
This is ridiculous. There has been studies and papers being written and released for MONTHS from all over the world. We’ve known about chloroquine since January. This INSISTENCE people keep having on politicizing this is infuriating and i
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by blhack 7y ago
Why do people go here and just post lies like this? This absolutely IS what is happening, here is a press conference from the Us Army Corps of Engineers from two days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csfCKuy5HH8&feat
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by blhack 7y ago
Fauci is a hero in every sense of the word right now.
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by blhack 7y ago
Where are you located?
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by blhack 7y ago
Is this sarcasm? This is exactly what is happening.
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by blhack 7y ago
Have you watched any of the press conferences? That is exactly what he is doing. Drs Fauci, Burks, and Adams give lengthy addresses every day (although Burks and Adams were not present today), as well as answer questions from the press.
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by blhack 7y ago
What should the US president be doing right now that he isn't doing?
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by blhack 7y ago
I'm trying to understand you here. Is the assumption that doctors are taking actions based on previous experience with those sorts of actions unwarranted in your opinion? Or a strawman? I'm sorry if but I'm having a difficu
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by blhack 7y ago
It seems like you disagree with my implication that use of something (in this case, chloroquine to treat covid-19, the use of which seems to be increasing daily) implies its efficacy. Why? I'm modeling the doctors and health officials
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by blhack 7y ago
If doctors are using this, and not seeing an effect, why do they continue using it? Doctors are humans, and prone to irrationality of course, but they're also scientists. Maybe my faith in the collective ability of the world medical p
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by blhack 7y ago
How could our disaster management agencies have gotten their shit together to anticipate a run on an old anit-malaria drug?
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by blhack 7y ago
It seems like such a strange nit to pick here over my use of the term miraculous. I don’t know what else you would call the results of the study I linked (supported by the reaction of many national health orgs). Yeah, maybe this isn’t the
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by blhack 7y ago
Oh come on that isn't fair. Just do a simple google search for countries which have made chloroquine part of their standard treatment. The reference you're making here is to a person trying to exploit people during a pandemic wi
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by blhack 7y ago
I don't mean and disrespect to you as a physician, but there appear to be many experts who disagree with you to the point of acting out their disagreement at scale. Chloroquine has become a standard part of treatment for this disease
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by blhack 7y ago
The findings they're claiming are nothing short of miraculous, and I think the people who were behind the trial, as well as everybody else even remotely interested in this (the entire world, I would say) should and likely does support
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by blhack 7y ago
To those who aren't aware of it, there was a recently completed (small) clinical study of hydroxychloroquine (and in some cases HCQ plus z-pack) just completed in France. The results are here: https://www.mediterranee-infec
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by blhack 7y ago
It's not anecdata. There was a small clinical study which was just completed, and showed almost miraculous success with hydroxychloroquine. https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

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