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Bordeaux is a nice place. Too bad the world is a mess right now.

Tropical, I know where you are coming from because you have told us a bit about your personal history. For sure you have pretty good reason to despise communist governments!!!!! Living in Houston as I do, one of the few good things that came out of the Vietnam war was the immigrants who moved...

An interesting thing about this is that quercetin was identified in about a dozen earlier studies as having activity against earlier coronaviruses. One thing about quercetin is that it is not just one thing. It comes with different sugar moieties depending on what plant you extract it from...

Meanwhile two places with exploding case rates are Florida and especially New Orleans. Mardi Gras and Spring Break is bringing the virus to a place near you. It goes where the people go. To and fro. We are really screwed unless we take drastic action.

This is really interesting and informative. A company called Kinsa makes digital smart thermometers that report results to a central database. From this they can tell where in the US people are spiking fevers, regardless of the cause. At the moment, though, Covid-19 is partly driving this, at...

I agree with this too, all of it. I shouldnt have said "comes close". Even they were certainly underestimating total cases a lot. I was trying to say though that their estimate of case fatality rate was a better guess than most. Problem is though with some of the monstrosities being...

I completely agree with Dr. Evil on all of these points. I'm starting to think he's not actually evil. Case fatality rate requires that you know both the number of cases and the number of those who die in the fullness of time. Number of cases is without doubt far higher than can be proven...

If we don't know how many people are walking around with the virus in them, it is really hard to make accurate models. The only place that came close is Korea.

Not really bad news. Virus genomes change reasonably quickly and we already knew about multiple variants. It's only bad if a new form emerges that is even more dangerous and so far no real evidence of that. By the way, I know the Icelandic fellow who made that discovery. At one point briefly...

Langel, you are right. Different study. I cant find results yet.

I already posted the first one a bit further up this thread. It was the very small randomized clinical trial with only thirty patients showing that hydroxychloroquine didn't have an effect. Disappointing but it was very small and none of the patients had severe form of the disease. Not...

It might be helpful if I explain a little about how clinical knowledge is advanced and compare this to anecdotes. I'll start with the lowest standard of evidence, the case report, which you can find in medical journals, usually for very unusual things, and also in grand rounds and...

I do too but I feel the same about Norway. Stockholm is reasonably densely populated, and I think this is a mistake.

I have access to a complete university medical library and I am following this pretty closely, so I'll try to distill the best info as I become aware of it. It was 88F in Houston today and a bit humid, a lot hotter than New South Wales. This may be where we will be able to learn something...

<tbody style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"> 硫酸羟氯喹治疗普通型2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19）患者初步研究 陈军(),刘丹萍,刘莉,刘萍,徐庆年,夏露,凌云,黄丹,宋树丽,张丹丹,钱志平,李涛,沈银忠,卢洪洲*() 上海市公共卫生临床中心感染与免疫科, 上海 201508 A pilot study of hydroxychloroquine in treatment of patients with common...

Update. A couple of very small randomized chloroquine or hydroxy chloroquine clinical trials are out now ( <30 patients, none with severe or critical disease). Conclusion is no effect on viral load or clinical outcomes. Need much bigger trial. Covid-19 cases in Australia are increasing with...

Brokenball, you have no idea what you are talking about. I will leave it at that. Your contributions to this thread have been laughable, and for an engineer you are remarkably innumerate. Here on out I will simply ignore you and advise everyone else to do so also.

Anecdotal evidence like that is close to worthless and if it is in the NY Post even more so. With that said, I still suspect chloroquine will have some value, mainly based on Chinese case reports and some in vitro evidence (effects in isolated cells in a dish). In biomedical sciences there are...

GOP Lieutenant Governor of Texas Dan Patrick and a noted Trump supporter said old people should be willing to put their lives st risk if it means we can immediately reboot the economy. Trump's son in law is arguing that the country should go back to business as usual. Trump, who ignored the...