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Maybe. No data or case reports published, hard to evaluate. And there are lots of hospitals in the Marseilles area, so we can't attribute it all to this one group. I certainly find chloroquine plausible. Like I said, there were hints that it might be useful that date back to the first SARS...

A study just last September warned that a pandemic could kill hundreds of thousands of people and badly damage the economy. And the study was written by a pair of White House economists at the request of the National Security Council, so, yes, people in the White House saw it. The 2019...

Another is how many golf days and campaign rallies has Trump had since Jan 7?

This little electronic ultrasonic device ought to do the trick.

Impossible to say one way or another from what they reported, and especially what they didn't report.

An FBI document says a man facing attempted murder charges for stabbing members of a family at a Midland (Texas) Sam’s Club did so because he thought the Asian Americans were Chinese and “infecting people with the coronavirus,” according to an ABC News report. The 19-year-old suspect admitted...

There was an initial report from a group in Marseilles on hydroxychloroquine. However as soon as people started looking a little closer at the methods and data the usual response was WTF, and it turns out the senior author is also Chief Editor of the journal where it was published.

I commented up above on what actually needs to be included in a publishable case report, which is the lowest standard of evidence in the medical literature. (Comment #680 pg 34). And this guy has provided nothing. These drugs may work, we'll know soon enough by work that has actually been...

The secret is in the apostrophe. Ba'al has spoken.

Du'mp and du'mped are also banned if you leave out the apostrophe.

If I was a betting man this is what I would put my money on.

This virus is weird and unpredictable. One of my colleagues is a kidney specialist (my area also). He has a transplant patient with Covid 19. Ought to be the worst possible thing because thse patients are filled with various immunosuppressive drugs to prevent rejection of the transplant. This...

There were no Olympics during WW2 and right now the world is in a war with a pandemic virus and we dont know how long it will take. A year is a long time but this is completely uncharted territory.

Me too. Lots of drugs are being tested. I hope we here something pretty soon. There is no shortage of patients and the disease runs its course pretty quickly.

I actually teach aspects of this, even though it's not my main area of expertise. (I teach the some of the science behind this, and I'm not a clinician). Ventilation is the standard treatment for anyone with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) which is generally what makes people die...

This is interesting. Within the article linked below you can find the actual pandemic response plan that was developed by the National Security Council in 2016 as a result of Ebola and earlier infectious diseases. Coronaviruses were specifically mentioned as a Tier 1 (highest level) threat...

Tropical, you were not alone in being lulled into a false sense of security by our own federal government and those who suck up to them. The good news is that you are ok. Rudy Giuliani tweeted today that hydroxychloroquine has a 100% success rate at treating Covid-19. That tweet was removed...

The Governor of Florida, noted Trump supporter Ron DeSantis, waited until March 20 to take any action on beaches, and even then made an order that affected only two counties. This is going to devastate Florida, a place with lots of older people. Local authorities were more aggressive which may...

That would be great. Lots of people ARE modeling this pandemic and continue to do so. Those models were presented to Trump during briefings in January. A handful of Senators got the same info (and some proceeded to unload stock immediately, and invest in work from home software companies)...

One thing though Tropical to keep in mind. Viruses have jumped from animals to people many times and many places, including in the US. Swine flu is an example where it happened here. It can happen anytime people and animals are in close proximity, and it's not like any one person or political...