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Pretty sure there's been rumblings of that for at least a week now.A "100%" cure for coronavirus has been supposedly discovered and announced on FOX TV: chloroquine, an old treatment for malaria.
Pretty sure there's been rumblings of that for at least a week now.A "100%" cure for coronavirus has been supposedly discovered and announced on FOX TV: chloroquine, an old treatment for malaria.
Pretty sure there's been rumblings of that for at least a week now.
I don't want to rude but Europe's response to this crisis has been sub-par if I'm honest. The amount of cases have increased dramatically compared to other continents, even North America. They should've shut all the borders as soon as it happened.
I don't want to rude but Europe's response to this crisis has been sub-par if I'm honest. The amount of cases have increased dramatically compared to other continents, even North America. They should've shut all the borders as soon as it happened.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-saysMore than 99% of Italy’s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions, according to a study by the country’s national health authority.
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The Rome-based institute has examined medical records of about 18% of the country’s coronavirus fatalities, finding that just three victims, or 0.8% of the total, had no previous pathology. Almost half of the victims suffered from at least three prior illnesses and about a fourth had either one or two previous conditions.
More than 75% had high blood pressure, about 35% had diabetes and a third suffered from heart disease.
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While data released Tuesday point to a slowdown in the increase of cases, with a 12.6% rise, a separate study shows Italy could be underestimating the real number of cases by testing only patients presenting symptoms.
According to the GIMBE Foundation, about 100,000 Italians have contracted the virus, daily Il Sole 24 Ore reported. That would bring back the country’s death rate closer to the global average of about 2%.
The future's market went up a little after this rumor broke. I am not sure if the market believes this guy. As I write this the DOW futures are down 573 points.A "100%" cure for coronavirus has been supposedly discovered and announced on FOX TV: chloroquine, an old treatment for malaria.
Also the pandemic is going to explode like a nuke in the US in the coming weeks, now that's an absolute certainty.
It has been nearly impossible to get tested everywhere in the US. Today, officially there are only 10 people infected in Houston TX, yeah right. They are starting to set up drive thru testing centers, but they will only test sick people.I think that is going to become apparent over the next 2 weeks as the cases in the US explode.
Italy says 99% of its coronavirus deaths had previous medical conditions; only 3 have died with no underlying health issues.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says
I have to wonder though if it's a bit premature to claim 99% who died had previous concerns, when this says they've only looked at 18% of the total fatalities. Those of you more versed in this field though, can share if this an acceptable sample size to claim such a figure, or are more examinations needed?
Not sure where you've been seeing anything that has to do with the conservative side. Both Indian & Australian tests are claiming it's worked for the first few tried cases.Appears to be mostly circulated in the conservative blogosphere...looking for the deus ex machina. I mean...I hope they're right! But something tells me that its a little optimistic.
Jaipur: A combination of two anti-HIV drugs has proved crucial in the treatment of coronavirus positive cases, a senior official of the Rajasthan government said.
Additional Chief Secretary (Medical and Health) Rohit Kumar Singh said the patients' condition improved after they were administered the anti-HIV drugs.
One of the two medications is an HIV drug, and the other is an anti-malaria drug called chloroquine.
Paterson said one of the medications had been administered to some of the first few COVID-19 patients in Australia, and that they had completely recovered after all signs of the virus "disappeared.
I hope this guy isn't full of crap.
Does he seem credible to you? There's somehting very odd about his presentation. It would be a bit of a medical miracle it it were true, no?
A "100%" cure for coronavirus has been supposedly discovered and announced on FOX TV: chloroquine, an old treatment for malaria.
I hope this guy isn't full of crap.
Does he seem credible to you? There's somehting very odd about his presentation. It would be a bit of a medical miracle it it were true, no?
Interesting publication, that confirms positive results in China, South Korea and France for an antipaludique drug:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/...JAGbdfF67WuRJB3ZsidgpidB2eocFHAVjIL-7deJ7/pub
The reference to UK is interesting. Do they fear shortage?
I know they are side effects, but not their extent.
RE: U.K. testing
Society underfunds many aspects of men's health in comparison to women's health so no I don't think that holds true to be honest. For example prostate cancer kills more men than breast cancer kills women but breast cancer funding dwarfs prostate cancer funding....The cynical side in me thinks that all these unprecedented responses to the coronavirus threat, including the accelerated testing for vaccines and treatment drugs, is because the most "threatened" demographic is older men past the 50s and 60s with underlying health issues. Which pretty much means almost every CEO, politician, "shakers and movers" of every industry are in the cross hairs.
Society underfunds many aspects of men's health in comparison to women's health so no I don't think that holds true to be honest. For example prostate cancer kills more men than breast cancer kills women but breast cancer funding dwarfs prostate cancer funding.
We've conducted 56,000 tests, or roughly 0.85 per thousand population - 10% of those yesterday. South Korea, Italy, and China are ahead of us, and that's about it. Edit: Russia too (~1 per thousand). UAE tops the per capita rankings, but has only conducted 120 tests.
Japan has tested 14,000, or roughly 0.1 per thousand. The USA has conducted 5 tests per million.
It's a weird narrative that the UK isn't testing as many people as other countries.
Other countries are doing the same thing too. Our testing rate is pretty high by comparison to most countries, which suggests that we are operating to a high capacity.I mean, it's not very important how we compare to other countries, only that we are operating to our own capacity
No, this would be a waste of time and resources. There is not only no point in testing people who are showing no symptoms and have no reason to think they could have been exposed (beyond being in public), it's counter-productive. You waste reagents and lab time chasing down nothing, and there's bound to be a very high false positive and false negative rate at this point in time (even without sample contamination from doing too many tests). You'd also need to retest everyone who's negative every five days to see if they've become positive in the interim.and getting as many people tested and treated as possible.
Our testing rate is pretty high by comparison to most countries, which suggests that we are operating to a high capacity.
I saw it, but it has little merit - we're talking about different types of tests for different organisms, for different purposes and at entirely different orders of magnitude. SARS-CoV-2 testing numbers are already somewhere in the region of 50 times higher than the 2009 E.coli outbreak.And the tweet/link I shared suggests that we aren't.
Screw the chains, they'll be fine.