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0 points3fe9a03ccd14ca56y ago0 comments

“Some countries” is of course South Korea, which has had one of the lowest mortality rates of covid19.

1. http://m.koreabiomed.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=7428

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rscho6y ago· 2 in thread

And of course, you provide evidence of a causal link to quinine derivatives. This is ridiculous.

If you really knew the scientific state of clinical research, you would be far more skeptical.

tim3336y ago

That sort of data while it doesn't prove hydroxychloroquine did it, it does give some hope. If it was the other way that they - that they'd treated everyone with that and had a bad death rate then that would pretty much prove it didn't work.

Another interesting bit of data along those lines is the Chinese added chloroquine to their their treatment guidelines on feb 19th and their death rate dropped about 3 or 4x shortly after https://neutron-assets.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/img/c...

rscho6y ago

I'm all for it if it works. But the diversity of practices and opinions among specialists shows that any current advice is just that: expert opinion. Here, we're doing kaletra. 100 kms from here, they're doing hydroxychloroquine.I understand the desperation, but I don't think it's for healthy citizens to pile up egoistically on ressources that might be more useful elsewhere.

From experience, expert opinion situations are not too encouraging. But let's hope we're lucky this time.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be off intubating highly contagious cases without appropriate protection equipment if you're looking for me in the coming days. Personally, I'm hoping that the disease preferentially targets politicians and health ministers #-(

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