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Prescription drug = a pharmaceutical drug that legally requires a medical prescription to be dispensed.
Personal responsibility = the idea that human beings choose, instigate, or otherwise cause their own actions.
Stupidity = behavior that shows a lack of good sense or judgment.
Personal responsibility = the idea that human beings choose, instigate, or otherwise cause their own actions.
Stupidity = behavior that shows a lack of good sense or judgment.
it's prescription only. no one told them to self-medicate.
Faulty generalization = the fallacy of examining just one or very few examples or studying a single case, and generalizing that to be representative of the whole class of objects or phenomena.
Forbes: Coronavirus Patient Dodged A Bullet With Hydroxychloroquine.
Mar 22, 2020,01:43pm EDT
"Two scientists at major university centers reviewed the French trial for me. They agreed, separately, that while the study is preliminary, small, and not without flaws, its findings were strong enough, given the drugs’ known safety records, to guide treatment decisions in a crisis.
“Despite the limitations of this study, in the absence of any effective treatment, in this urgent situation, this Plaquenil and Azithromycin combination therapy should be given to patients with COVID-19 as a treatment option,” Ying Zhang, a professor of microbiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote in an email. “For now, there is no time to wait."
Brian Fallon, a research scientist and clinical trials investigator at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, agreed on the study’s overall merit despite the patients who dropped out. After analyzing the data and counting all six dropouts as treatment failures, he said the overall rate of improvement was still statistically significant for the entire group, though not for the hydroxychloroquine group alone."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marybethpfeiffer/2020/03/22/one...
Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery: 'We're going to be fine'
https://news.yahoo.com/why-nobel-laureate-predicts-quicker-2...
It seems to be happening everywhere:
Netherlands: TOTAL CORONAVIRUS CASES QUADRUPLE IN A WEEK TO 4,204; DEATH TOLL REACHES 179
https://nltimes.nl/2020/03/22/total-coronavirus-cases-quadru...
Very important:
1. Gov. Cuomo announces trial of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to start in NY
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/22/coronavirus-ny-gov-cuomo-say...
2. CDC: Healthcare workers OK to use homemade masks (bandana,scarf) as last resort.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2020/03/20/calling-all-...
“Healthcare personnel (HCP) use of homemade masks:
In settings where facemasks are not available, HCP might use homemade masks (e.g., bandana, scarf) for care of patients with COVID-19 as a last resort. However, homemade masks are not considered PPE, since their capability to protect HCP is unknown. Caution should be exercised when considering this option. Homemade masks should ideally be used in combination with a face shield that covers the entire front (that extends to the chin or below) and sides of the face.”
making masks.
Calling All People Who Sew And Make: You Can Help Make Masks For 2020 Healthcare Worker PPE Shortage
"In settings where facemasks are not available, HCP might use homemade masks (e.g., bandana, scarf) for care of patients with COVID-19 as a last resort."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2020/03/20/calling-all-...
“Healthcare personnel (HCP) use of homemade masks:
In settings where facemasks are not available, HCP might use homemade masks (e.g., bandana, scarf) for care of patients with COVID-19 as a last resort. However, homemade masks are not considered PPE, since their capability to protect HCP is unknown. Caution should be exercised when considering this option. Homemade masks should ideally be used in combination with a face shield that covers the entire front (that extends to the chin or below) and sides of the face.”
Faulty generalization = the fallacy of examining just one or very few examples or studying a single case, and generalizing that to be representative of the whole class of objects or phenomena.
Faulty generalization = the fallacy of examining just one or very few examples or studying a single case, and generalizing that to be representative of the whole class of objects or phenomena.
FDA approval for coronavirus treatment.
Faulty generalization = the fallacy of examining just one or very few examples or studying a single case, and generalizing that to be representative of the whole class of objects or phenomena.
right. we need to wait for FDA approval. and since it's prescription only, you need to check with your doctor.
No immunity. but they develop antibodies. More info here:
"FDA is working on treatment of coronavirus with blood from recovered patients"
"The method — essentially harvesting virus-fighting antibodies from the blood of previously infected patients — dates back more than a century"
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-working-treat...
Great. I hope it becomes available to everyone.
"Novartis, Mylan and Teva to supply tens of millions of chloroquine tablets to fight COVID-19"
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/new-commitments-mylan-an...
1. it's prescription only.
2. it's already available for compassionate use.
The FDA is allowing chloroquine and remdesivir to be used for 'compassionate use' to treat the coronavirus.
https://www.businessinsider.com/chloroquine-remdesivir-compa...
Chloroquine is available in the United States by prescription only.
chloroquine is prescription only in the US.
its good to be skeptical. Others have had good results as well. Hope we get more data.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marybethpfeiffer/2020/03/18/sci...
An old malaria and autoimmune drug is showing promise as a potential treatment for COVID-19 – although health officials are urging caution until clinical trials are done.
The drug, hydroxychloroquine, sold under the brand name Plaquenil, was reported March 9 in Clinical Infectious Diseases journal to be effective at killing the virus in laboratory experiments. In a letter in Cell Discovery Wednesday, the study’s authors, mainly from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, wrote, “(W)e predict that the drug has a good potential to combat the disease.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/here-are-some-exi...
looks promising.
"A renowned research professor in France has reported successful results from a new treatment for Covid-19, with early tests suggesting it can stop the virus from being contagious in just six days.
Professor Raoult is an infectious diseases specialist and head of the IHU Méditerranée Infection, who has been tasked by - and consulted by - the French government to research possible treatments of Covid-19."
https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/French-researche...