Episode-2628- Listener Feedback for 3-30-20
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Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on corona virus treatments, fun stuff, the stimulus, hydroponics, composting, business, water filters, quail, air rifles and more.
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- An on the ground CoVid report for NYC contrasted to what I am hearing from Seattle
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I have some leftover Hydroxychloroquine that was prescribed to me (off-label) 7 years ago for Lyme. Is it still good? (I can’t find my copy of the Shelf Life Extension Program and am too late to ask Doc Bones as he was on 2 weeks ago.) Thanks!
Corona with a twist of Lyme, lol.
JM- Certified Pharmacy Tech
7-year old medication bottles are about 5 years past expiration. The average shelf life of drugs in the manufacture’s packaging is around two years. Anything dispensed in a regular Rx bottle is given a 1-year shelf life. That being said, I personally wouldn’t throw it out in the middle of a pandemic, but the efficacy of expired meds is questionable. We all have a habit of not wanting to toss medications, but this is a good time to go through medicine cabinets to see what can be given to a medication recycling program.
US Army did a study, drugs in pills and capsule form were found to exceed 90 efficacy even after 10 years in excess of expiration date when stored at standard room temp or lower.
Jack,
Do the needful, take care of yourself first.
Thanks for all you do.
Regards,
Ca you give the theee supplements you need to battle covid? Thanks
Not “need to battle”, I didn’t say that, and will never say anything like that, do not put words in my mouth, thank you. You are phrasing that in a way that if I said it, I could go to federal fucking prison.
The three supplements that show promise and accordign to researchers might help are, zinc, green tea extract and quercetin. Quercetin and green tea are proven ionophores for zinc, meaning they help zinc get inside your cells. Zinc inside the cells is scientifically proven to reduce viral load by interfering with viral replication.
Does that mean it will help with covid? No, it means it might, may be, but the scientific logic seems to track.
In the notes for this episode here http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/episode-2626-simple-fast-and-easy-kratky-hydroponics-for-growing-food you will see a section that says, Links Referenced about Hydroxychloroquine Works and On Why Some OTC Supplements May do Some Portion Thereof
You should examine that data and make your own decisions and NOT EXCEED recommended dosages of any of the items. You also need to use care if the zinc you get has other things like B vitamins, etc. While you can safely take quite a bit of zinc some other vitamins and minerals are not water soluble. You also need to look at anything else you are taking to not exceed dosages of some things.
Sorry for some of the tone but I have ZERO interest in spending time at club fed so I am making NO CLAIMS about anything working just pointing to scientific research and saying hey these OTC things may be beneficial because this science guy says so.
Though there is some discussion in the paper above of some reason to believe hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin may be an effective treatment. This study (https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-IHU-2-1.pdf) shouldn’t really give anyone that much confidence for 2 major reasons: there is no placebo group, and it is not blinded. I know you think you answered the objection of placebo group when you pointed to the general data available, but we don’t necessarily have people in the same hospital under the same physicians with the same level of skill, equipment availability, etc. and the only difference is the additional drug treatment and left unknown to the researchers because of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer-expectancy_effect. There are studies were effects disappear once you do more carefully designed studies. For instance when they used calcium to treat elevated lead levels, and it worked! Then another study with a placebo did the same thing and it worked again, but there was no difference between then calcium, and placebo group. Over time researches ended up finding oral Vitamin C helped reduced serum lead level. Science is riddled with false starts, but I think this is still worth pursing since there does seem to be some basic science data to suggest it might work. It may be easy to be swept up in hope or anger at the Orange Man, but we really need to work at getting the answer right as quickly as possible.
You don’t need a placebo group! You have hundreds of thousands of cases and placebo effect is well known by precentage form THOUSANDS of studies and you can factor that as a margin of error. If a few percent of people actually self heal due to placebo, big fuckin deal.
There is not really a set percentage of people the improve in a placebo groups and the common teaching around placebo groups has created false thinking (https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-placebo-effect/). For instance, placebo groups with pancreatic cancer have terrible outcomes, but the placebo group in treating a mild viral infection with antibiotics does extremely well. The reason you have a placebo group is because you don’t know what percentage of people will spontaneously improve without data, and if you don’t know the Denominator, as you have made clear, then you don’t have the data to determine what percentage will improve spontaneously.
In other words we know the typical placebo response for like kind illnesses.
Yes(kind of), and no. I was making 2 points.
1. We may have some idea what is likely, but in both examples the pancreatic cancer, and antibiotics for viral infection, the placebo effect in studies for all intensive purposes is zero because the pancreatic cancer patient is going to die at the same rate whether you treat them with a placebo or not, and the person with the viral infection given antibiotics is going to get better whether you treat them this way or not. Placebos help researchers remove their biases, not treat patients.
2. You can’t calculate and determine the effectiveness of a treatment unless you know the untreated outcome of the condition, and in this case we don’t really since we don’t know the denominator. There have been assumptions by experts about what the underlying reality of the coronavirus spread in the Oxford vs Imperial models debate, and one group or both is going to end of up being wrong (though I think one will be closer to the truth). Even experts in a field need to actually measure the data.
You know what, placebo isn’t going to stop viral pneumonia so your first point nullifies your second. We are not gauging how people feel but viral load, pneumonia and death rate.
In this case it is irrelevant, and if placebo response actually cures 10% FUCK IT, quit being a dip shit here. We know this works and they do too! The more of it that becomes available the more truth is coming out about it.
Gonna say they now have hundreds (again HUNDREDS) of health care workers on it as a preventative in NY. Bet you didn’t know that. The plan is for it to be THOUSANDS soon.
Doctors are literally killing people here and being forced not to. Patients are on it against treating MDs wishes, the MDs are bitching about it WHILE PATIENTS IMPROVE in Detroit. These are patients that are totally fucked already. Get it to people before they need a hospital and we can minimum cut the hospital load in half.
My contact in the drug company last night said and I quote, “the FDA is kissing our ass, so they know what’s up”.
Jack,
good job on chloroquine but trying to convince people it is effective is going to be like promoting conspiracy theories at this point. A web search mostly seems to turn up sites that say it won’t do much.
I am going to call some walk in clinics in the area today and see if they would prescribe chloroquine in the event of symptoms etc. The last two times I had to go to the doctor, I just went to a clinic instead. I will try to tell my mother and my sister about chloroquine but I doubt they will believe me. I will encourage them to inquire with their doctor and report back to me what they are told. I will also encourage a few friends the same and it’s more likely I could convince them
i orded 3/4 of an ounce of actual quinine powder derrived from Honduras cinchona bark 4 days ago from bonanza. It’s being shipped from CA. Not sure when it is arriving. It costs $10, some other sites sell a more expensive product but I just ordered the cheapest I could find as I am in a frugal state of mind currently for various reasons
i have a small bottle of zicam which has zinc, I guess that would be effective? Whole Foods seems sold out of zinc
I heard of the first case of convincing coronavirus symptoms of a call in to a podcast I listen to of someone who thinks they have it.
thanks also for the note on mortgage relief. I am going to look at that. It appears if you have mortgage insurance through federal government then you are eligible and some 50% of mortgages supposedly are. If I am eligible for that I think I would be in the state of mind to order zinc online and probably more cinchona bark
I think in 2-3 weeks it will become something every body knows. Major corporations will not alter production schedules to make millions of doses of something with no plans for it to be used.
You are seeing a slow turn by main stream to say yea it works but it is in short supply we must use it for the most critical for now.
Major corporations will not alter production schedules to make millions of doses of something with no plans for it to be used.
This^
Indeed why is this so hard for people to understand? I think TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) is a more serious illness in some ways than CoVid. I mean really CoVid either kills you or goes away, TDS seems terminal.
I emailed my sister about chloroquine, she said sarcastically:
“so glad to have a doctor in the family with insider information”
I called my mortgage company but was put on hold indefinitely until it says they will call you back in 3 days or so. I found some other option where it asks you qutomated questions but you never speak to a person.
The link below says that if your mortgage has federal insurance then you are eligible for a deferment. I answered a bunch of automated questions and the system said I was eligible for a 3 forbearance which I don’t think means much of anything. My company didn’t go out of business but I specified “Other temporary situation of unknown length” In a forbearance, from google searches it seems it may mean don’t have to pay your mortgage for 3 months but at the end of 3 months then you owe the money for all 3 mortgage payment that you missed. If there is some rule on how that all works or if it’s up to banks by discretion I was not able to discern that
https://www.edwardjones.com/market-news-guidance/guidance/cares-act-highlights.html
“Mortgage Relief for Homeowners: Requires the servicers of federally backed mortgages to postpone mortgage payments at the request of the borrower, provided the borrower affirms financial hardship due to COVID-19. The postponement must be granted for up to 180 days and extended for an additional period of up to 180 days at the request of the borrower.”
It will vary by lender, there is what they have to do, then there is what they are choosing to do.
Re: http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/feedback-3-30-20#comment-937004
There was no reply link under this last set of comments
“You know what, placebo isn’t going to stop viral pneumonia so your first point nullifies your second.”
No, because we know these things because they were studied. My first point is that we need unbiased data, so that we can proceed with the accurate calculations that follow in the second point.
“We are not gauging how people feel but viral load, pneumonia and death rate”
How do you know the death rate without knowing the denominator? Each time I have mentioned the denominator you have left it out of your subsequent response.
“In this case it is irrelevant, and if placebo response actually cures 10% FUCK IT, quit being a dip shit here. We know this works and they do too! The more of it that becomes available the more truth is coming out about it”
Making up numbers like 10% isn’t an actual study. Which studies do you think lead them to believe that they know that this.works? Is there another clinical study with a placebo group, at least a large randomized sample public health study to help us determine what the actual denominator is.
“Gonna say they now have hundreds (again HUNDREDS) of health care workers on it as a preventative in NY. Bet you didn’t know that. The plan is for it to be THOUSANDS soon”
I didn’t know this until today’s show, but again no placebo and no denominator. I have been practicing not paying to much attention to the news as you recommend.
“Doctors are literally killing people here and being forced not to. Patients are on it against treating MDs wishes, the MDs are bitching about it WHILE PATIENTS IMPROVE in Detroit. These are patients that are totally fucked already. Get it to people before they need a hospital and we can minimum cut the hospital load in half.”
This is simply emotive and not about how to properly study a problem. Yes, it’s tragic, and I hope it works, but I am arguing that this is not how we KNOW it works. We should spend resources on solving this problems, but if he don’t have answer then we may be wasting resources. Then not only are there the dead, but a greater loss of wealth due to the misallocation of resources.
Thank you for proving that the establishment mindset is a dinosaur killing people RIGHT NOW as we both type.
This med is safe, you try it and you know it works, it doesn’t work you know it didn’t, it is that simple. Guess what, it is going to be done my way. For that I am grateful beyond words. One does not produce at the quantity being made right now for trials.
It is sad it is taking this long but wonderful that it is happening at all.
Here is a fact, right now in Detroit there are patients getting better taking this, while their doctors are complaining about being forced to give it to them. If you can defend that in anyway, just going to say if you get this shit, give your doses if available to someone else.
As to resources they are making it anyway and by my tally the first roughly 60 million doses to be released in the US are being provided for FREE by three drug companies.
And let me add this, MOSTLY up till now this med has been being used on patients already intubated, clearly later than it should be. Yet it still improves the condition.
Please inform this ignorant duck farmer that is over simplifying this one thing. How can a person sedated to the point of being in a medically induced coma can have a fucking placebo effect?
Seriously is your contention that a person in a medically induced coma with a machine doing their breathing for them can have a placebo effect?
Not to mention the most recent study was on patients who were not that far but did have sever pneumonia and it was randomized and blind and still reduced viral load in advanced cases by a day faster and improved pneumonia by 2X treatments without it.
Last I don’t know why you people who say you worship science also deny it. The use of this medication being proven on corona viruses goes back to at least 2005. It is not new, it is not new, it isn’t new.
Yes CoVid-Sars-2 is a new cornoa virus but it is still a Corona Virus.
Never thought I would say this but Trump is a fucking hero for ramming this through.
“Thank you for proving that the establishment mindset is a dinosaur killing people RIGHT NOW as we both type”
Not sure how I proved this. Maybe you could explain to me argument. Even if my view is completely establishment, does that mean it’s wrong? Does the source of idea determine it’s validity? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy) Were not people just as wrong for denying a fact because Trump said it, as you clear to point out earlier?
“This med is safe, you try it and you know it works, it doesn’t work you know it didn’t, it is that simple. Guess what, it is going to be done my way. For that I am grateful beyond words. One does not produce at the quantity being made right now for trials.”
I am not arguing it is not safe but have been questioning the methodology regarding the evidence for it’s efficacy. They could set up some trials amid all of this.
“Here is a fact, right now in Detroit there are patients getting better taking this, while their doctors are complaining about being forced to give it to them. If you can defend that in anyway, just going to say if you get this shit, give your doses if available to someone else.”
There is a high likelihood I will be exposed. This is not just academic for me, so I do really want to know the truth.
“And let me add this, MOSTLY up till now this med has been being used on patients already intubated, clearly later than it should be. Yet it still improves the condition.”
Without placebos we don’t know what percentage of people would improve without a specific treatment.
“Please inform this ignorant duck farmer that is over simplifying this one thing. How can a person sedated to the point of being in a medically induced coma can have a fucking placebo effect?”
I thought I was clear above that placebos don’t treat people, but are part of the process of removing bias from a study. This is why placebo effect disappear with hard outcomes, and not patient perceived outcomes. I provided a link above about this.
“Seriously is your contention that a person in a medically induced coma with a machine doing their breathing for them can have a placebo effect?”
See above. Also, I have been in a meeting where a doctor confidently proclaimed his use of a specific treatment for years helped his patient, only to have another doctor point out that studies on this specific treatment showed no difference than placebo.
“Not to mention the most recent study was on patients who were not that far but did have sever pneumonia and it was randomized and blind and still reduced viral load in advanced cases by a day faster and improved pneumonia by 2X treatments without it.”
Are you speaking of this one?( https://www.barrons.com/articles/hydroxychloroquine-trial-randomized-covid-19-efficacy-51585748653). This does seem to be the best study yet, but there still are some concerns about the overall methodology (https://zenodo.org/record/3739134#.XokwW9OSnIU). They though chloroquine which seemed to have evidence of activity would work for influenza but didn’t when studied (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(11)70065-2/fulltext)
“Last I don’t know why you people who say you worship science also deny it”.
Did I say I worship science? I don’t know why people who say they use logic and reason need to put words in other people’s mouths. If you are going to claim the science is on your side then you should better understand why medical scientists do things the way they do (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_medicine, https://explorable.com/research-bias). You made the claims about science first, and I am explaining why I think your wrong about the science though it is still possible Hydroxychloroquine may have treatment benefit, we just don’t have the kind of evidence that would give me confidence in that.
“The use of this medication being proven on corona viruses goes back to at least 2005. It is not new, it is not new, it isn’t new.”
The first study I have found in 2005 was in cell cultures in non-human primates(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/). It is common for animal models to fail (https://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/bmj.g3387.full_.pdf). It has been a constant sad old refain to read about treatments that were positive in animals that failed in humans.
Is it just me, or did Jack seem to lose his mind in all this. You are bringing up a lot of great points and Jack is sticking his fingers in his ears shouting that he is right and everyone else is wrong.
He is criticizing method while ignoring overwhelming results. Like the new French study out today, this time with 1000 patients and a 99.3% success rate. But some other groups said the study was flawed.
Sorry we know the averages, we know what untreated looks like, we have ALL the data we need to KNOW that.
When you treat 1000 patients here, or over 600 like the Dr in NY or all the other cases we see with Doctors say, we did this and it worked and you go back to MUH STUDIES MUST TAKE A YEAR AND BE PEER REVIEWED sorry I have no time for it.
If this didn’t work you’d not have so many MDs risking their licenses and reputations by saying, yes it does.
All from the last 5 days, the first two from the last 48 hours. Three things can’t be hidden for long, the sun, the moon and the truth.
https://techstartups.com/2020/04/06/french-researcher-dr-didier-raoult-has-now-treated-1000-coronavirus-patient-with-99-3-success-rate/
https://fromrome.info/2020/04/06/dr-anthony-cardillo-hydroxychloroquine-cures-my-covid-19-patients-in-8-12-hours/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=363&v=Z7SDemHGl8U&feature=emb_title
And it keeps coming.
And as I an many MDs keep saying.
1. Use it before the patient goes critical
2. It must be used with zinc as it is an ionophore
Hyrdoxychloroquine only works with given in conjunction with the mineral Zinc. It serves to open the cells of the human body so that the Zinc can enter and do its job. – https://abc11.com/coronavirus-drug-covid-19-malaria-hydroxychloroquine/6079864/
Please do tell me when we can #stoppretending and I really am tired of MDs who should know better waiting on a total stamp of approval from the same idiots that said Comfrey is a toxin.
I finally figured it out. I know exactly how to reply to Jack right now. Purely based on how he has handled past event and how he handles online criticism, I know what to say.
Jack,
Ok boomer.
I truly mean that without sarcasm. I know you are “Gen X”, but you genuinely act like a boomer. Took me long enough to figure it out, but I did.
Ok snowflake.
Let me add, the new case count is flat for about 5 days now but still high (30K a day). The cumulative case count is UP significantly because we are talking 30,000 cases a day. Hospital use if all is net the same should continue to rise a lot. In fact hospitalizations for Covid should continue to rise about 14 days after a significant drop in daily new cases. All the models till now were based on this. Yet total people in the hospital even in the epicenters like NY have declined in the last week. NY in fact had peak resource use hit two days ago, I mean I am not making that up, https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/new-york
No one seems to be connecting these two illogical dots. The TV morons are blathering on about social distance working, sure but that does not in anyway resolve the conflict, at all, even a little bit. Every model had up till now hospital use rate dropping well lagging behind case count rates and death rates lagging further behind that.
Anyone following this yet? The only and I mean the only logical explanation is that while as many people are continuing to get infected for some reason a far lower percentage of them are ending up in the hospital, in ICUs and on vents. That even those that get admitted are being released faster.
Please think logically it is the ONLY way we get from there to here, less people going in and people coming out faster. There is no other option. Cuomo himself said hospitalizations were down yesterday and the day before, while the case count of new daily cases is flat.
The reason I am telling people shitting on this treatment to sod off is we know it works, we are watching it work and claiming it does not work will cost lives if anyone with the authority to use it listens to you.
The only reason you can have case counts remain level on daily new cases and LESS people in the hospital (specifically inside the 14 day window of the illness) is that treatments are working better and getting people out of the hospital faster or keeping them out in the first place.
Now according to a global study what is the number one treatment MDs are actually using for CoVid? It is a combination of zpacks and hydroxycholoriquine, and many are now finally adding zinc.
As this nonsense of push back has gone on here is what I am getting….
1. Continued confirmation by contacts in drug companies that batches are continuing to be increased in size per every run.
2. Dozens of emails, “I am a Dr./Nurse/Pharmacist and I am seeing cholorquine being used and it is working for many people.
3. I am somewhere in the healthcare system for X state and we are now increasing cholorquine supplies as fast as we can and having very little issues with getting it.
So you guys go ahead and keep poking holes in “methods” and denying results, because as I am becoming fond of saying, “Three things cannot be hidden for long. The sun, the moon and the truth.”
If the zinc was so crucial as you stated, wouldn’t it have been still bad until they started using it? Also, didn’t you say there were studies that had patients in terrible condition, yet got better after only hydroxycholoriquine? You don’t seem to realize how much you flip flop on any subject. I’m not saying hydroxycholoriquine wouldn’t help or that it will hurt, but maybe don’t put as much blind faith in it and some of these doctors as you do. I personally have been around plenty of doctors and I can genuinely say that there are more than a couple that make claims that would get their license revoked and have even doubled down on claims in court. Take a chill pill, sit down, and quit acting like you are intellectually superior to everyone.
No because as I keep saying.
1. While it is a ionophore for zinc and that is a scientific fact, it does other things to help as well. This includes some level of directly killing the virus and as it does in lupus patients reduction of inflammation in the lungs. When I say must be used with zinc, I am saying for best results.
2. Many people have sufficient zinc in their bodies and the ionophore effect has zinc to work with. More is better but some is often enough.
Why the fuck some of you are so against this is fucking mind bending. We are talking Doctors on the record on video, in writing, etc. Tell you what if you get Covid, don’t take it, give it to someone that wants to live or at least stay out of the hospital.
Which of the following do you claim is not factual…
1. Hydroxycholorquine is a zinc ionophore
2. Zinc inside the cell slows the replication of all mRNA viruses.
3. Covid-Sars-2 is an mRNA replicating virus
4. Hydroxycholorquine has been shown to directly kill Covid-Sars-2
5. Hydroxycholorquine reduces inflammation and over active immune response
Which if any of those 5 statements is false?
I will not shut up about this nor fucking “settle down” about it as the lies are costing lives and the efforts by many to get the truth out are actively saving them.
By the way all 5 points are proven scientific fact.
Fun fact, did you know that although they were able to get hydroxycholorquine to kill Covid-Sars-2 in a lab previous studies have shown that the same effects are not always true in animals (to include primates) so what you are spouting might not be true because of how our own bodies react. Also to reiterate, I am not against trying it to try to treat and find something that may work I am only against blindly spouting about it and shitting on anyone pointing out potential flaws that should be looked into. But you know what, you do you boomer.
Fun fact we now have thousands of Doctors reporting it works, stop talking out of your ass snowflake.
Oh wow, maybe check out these?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/13/how-false-hope-spread-about-hydroxychloroquine-its-consequences/
https://www.poynter.org/ifcn-covid-19-misinformation/page/2/?search_terms=chloroquine
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/health/chloroquine-coronavirus-trump.html
I would love to have your sources where there are “thousands of Doctors reporting it works”. If you are going to spout of something like that you really should provide some evidence. So far it’s only been a handful.
Also, you never did explain why you say it both helped patients in comas and it also was and is not being not given soon enough to help. So much for me being the one talking out my ass.
Yes you are indeed talking out of your ass, I am sorry you don’t comprehend “in order to work best” or “to get the best results”. As we have now reached an impasse of your inability to comprehend a vocabulary my 9 year old grandson does not struggle with, I am done bothering with your bullshit. Let me just one more time say you are the one denying results from at this point 1000’s of doctors.
The source that there are thousands of doctors is the doctors themselves.
Good to go, just doubling down for a reply instead of actually checking the information that was sent. I am actually trying to find this information of all these doctors to try and figure out where they are and how it’s being applied, but I guess trying numerous search engines with multiple search criteria and not coming back with the same information you are giving is my fault. Or maybe it just doesn’t exist as you say it does. Quit flip flopping what you say and playing mental gymnastics to “prove” your point.
Like I said I am done arguing with someone denying public results and who is struggling with 4th grade reading comprehension.
I’m an ICU nurse in PA dealing with this first hand and all our covid patients are getting hydrochloroquine and azithromycin. We are not seeing any effect. The ID docs are prescribing it because there’s a chance it might help and there’s no evidence it’s hurting. But it doesn’t seem to make any difference from what we’re seeing in practice. Wish it looked better, but from my point of view (in the gear up close and personal with the covid patients) it does not appear to be anything like a game changer. To be clear, I wish it was.
And I keep saying if you wait until a patient is in ICU and on a vent the issue is no longer the virus, it is pneumonia and lung damage.
Let me guess you are also not giving zinc with it.
You are also not giving it to people before they are hospitalized. Right?
I have no doubt it’s a great benefit to the vast majority of people who don’t get that sick from covid. Which is why some healthcare professionals are skeptical. It seems like the great benefits reported are for those who are already going to get better. But hey, we’re giving, I hope it works. I do know that the ones who come to icu usually don’t even have test results back. They crash remarkably quickly. I have no idea what happens in the outpatient world, but all inpatients with covid seem to be getting it. Seems to have a placebo effect in that it might make the general public feel better
No that is not how this works. The time you guys are sending people home and those five days before they end up in your ICU, that is a critical time. That is when it is most needed.
Placebo does not explain 75% with zero virus in 5 days vs. 10% in a control group.
This approach being used is like giving antibiotics to a plague victim 2 hours before death and complaining they don’t work.
Are you talking about this study? (https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Hydroxychloroquine_final_DOI_IJAA.pdf) The end of page 9 is where they talk about viral load under “statistics” which are a little different then what you quote. Seems promising, but if you read page 10 of the study you will find out the 6 of the 26 patients were not counted in the final data because they were “lost to follow up” in the Hydroxychloquine group with 3 of them transferred to the ICU with 1 dying, and they clearly state that they continue the calculation without these patients. This is why you need Intent to Treat analysis(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention-to-treat_analysis)
Where can I find the livestream of the covid segment? Am I dumb? I can’t find it anywhere. I want to share it.
https://bit.ly/39BDg12
Thank you, but I was looking for the one from episode 2628.