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Permanent lung damage is not on my list of things I would like to get.

Time to start shivving anyone who coughs.

400 Danm Amen brother. Hearing same out of my hospitals.

Take this seriously folks. We are not panicking or overreacting.

Several weeks ago I kept saying sometimes dead is better. The living “hospital sick” will have a long haul and likely never fully recover.

At the time I was saying that I was seeing data suggesting 1-3% death rate. 20% (including the 1-3% death folks) hospital sick rate. Of the remaining 80% half would get pneumonia leaving some degree of scarring and permanent damage. The other half are the lucky ones that folks were acting like would be the norm.

So that’s 20% hospital sick, 40% pneumonia treated at home and 40% no symptoms or flu like.

That was a while ago and we may know more or it may have changed. Yet folks including the President continue to compare it to the flu.

Saw last night that... Ford, I think it was... is converting some of their production line(s) to crank out face shields, with the first 75,000 expected this week, and 100,000 per week after that.

Other similar efforts are underway too.

A slight bit of good news.
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Expecting ventilators out of Detroit as well.

negotiations between Fed Govt. and GM to make ventilators broke down over pricing issue...Trump publicly called out GM CEO

That was before the 4M promise which everyone on stage knew was a lie. Different issue.

The idiot gave several conferences in a row promising massive number of tests by the end of each week etc. every time it was known that wouldn’t happen. Part of the Barnum and Bailey treatment of this. He does remind me of Baghdad Bob.

The faulty tests were earlier and a tiny number. It had nothing to do with his lies.

seems like years ago during a time of crisis with numbers of people dying, but Trump declared a National Emergency on March 13, and invoked the Defense Production Act on March 18...

all to little efffect...

wonder why he hasn't set up a national FEMA Joint Ops Command Center; ordered states and local govts to set up command centers at their levels and coordinate their activities around their primary mission: to identify existing needed medical supplies, inventory the nation's stockpiles, order private companies to produce them and take charge of logistics in distribution to places of greatest needs...we can exhaust the stockpile while producing stuff to replenish...he has the authority given the national emergency preparedness guidelines codified into law, to do this


shoulda been done when he declared an emergency, at which time he said there was a shortage of this stuff...

is he not listening to his DHS and FEMA folks?


I guess his priority now is to hold daily press briefings to discuss his successful response to the emergency...

Always gotta bring up facts..

I fell asleep and missed Baghdad Bobs performance tonight.

Before. The amount of lies during it tends to keep me awake.

It’s being build by Jared in the White House garage and is shaped like a shark with laser beam eyes!

Yes.

give him credit.......he occasionally gets some things right

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MAJOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS:

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1. The French infectious disease researcher who did the initial small-scale hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin tests that showed a 100% cure rate with those 2 drugs combined has now completed a larger study. Details:

Preprint just released, will be published over the weekend.
Again no control group (likely again due to time pressure).
80 patients, all hospitalized with COVID-19.
79 of the 80 survived, a result considered quite remarkable.
Within 8 days, 93% of the patients had no detectable virus in their bodies.
Results fit with anecdotal cure reports coming in from doctors and patients in the field.
Better studies are underway now.

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2. Anecdotal reports from rheumatologists about hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19. Details:

A number of rheumatologists (who routinely prescribe hydroxychloroquine for their patients for other conditions like arthritis) are reporting apparent significant antiviral effects of hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19.

No further details or studies at this time.

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3. Safety study on use of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin together. Details:

Uncontrolled.
Found no incremental (additional) risk of using the two drugs together.
Results fit with anecdotal reports from doctors in the field indicating no major problems using these 2 drugs together.
Better studies to follow soon.

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4. Convalescent plasma study. Details:

Published in JAMA.
Recovered patients' plasma was given to current COVID-19 patients to transfer antibodies.
Small-scale study with 5 patients, all "morbidly ill" with COVID-19.
All had lungs heavily affected, were in the ICU and were intubated (on ventilators).
All 5 patients survived.
Of the 5, 3 went home, the other 2 are doing okay.
Perfect recovery rate of 5/5 is considered remarkable at that advanced level of seriousness.
Larger proper clinical trials starting in NY now.

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5. FDA just approved a new COVID-19 test. Details:

Compact, can be done in a doctor's office, no hospital needed.
Provides positive results in 5 minutes.
Provides negative results in 13 minutes.
Will facilitate much easier and widespread mass testing.
Intention is to test millions of people in April.

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The fast test is a major win.

Our goose stepping Democrat governor signed an executive order yesterday that will shut the entire state down until April 30th! He'll be history this November. Strange that ABC stores and gun shops are listed as essential businesses.

My wife and I hit Wal-Mart when they opened this morning (7 am). We had to wait outside in line, 6' apart. They would let 3 or 4 people in every few minutes. I think I need to go punch some paper.

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Some further info:

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The 1 person who didn't survive was over 86 years old and was way "too far gone" by the time the study started, with "irreversible" damage.

That means 79 out of 79 "save-able" patients were saved.

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A doctor Smith who runs a NY infectious disease group said his group is giving hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to all suitable COVID-19 patients, currently 53 patients, and of the ones who required intubation (I believe it was 10 of them), it was ALWAYS before Day 3 of the treatment. ZERO patients needed it after Day 3, which he said is remarkable.

Dr. Smith also said that of all the doctors in his organization, when asked their opinions about hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin based on what they were seeing administering it to COVID-19 patients, one said he was undecided, but the all the others said they strongly believed it was helping a lot.

I have no further info, but I hope Dr. Smith is going to publish this somewhere.

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A doctor whose name begins with Z, but but I can't remember the full name, indicated that he treated 669 COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin and only 5 required hospitalization and only 2 were intubated, which is again considered a remarkable result.

Again I have no further info, but again I hope Dr. Z is going to publish this somewhere.

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And what is your background? Pm is fine if more comfortable and I’d never share if told not to.

I think he watches Fox nudes - Trish Reagan was his favorite, but now they fired her.

And I am not disagreeing or denigrating the info. Just want to follow up and look deeper. For my purposes not to disparage.

I gotcha. Cool.

I just ran this by my wife (She works in our local hospitals lab), her lab supervisor and the hospital pathologist.

Speaking to this one and this one alone. The FDA has thrown the doors wide open. This is an emergency, go for it. They're pretty much approving anything that doesn't look harmful.

As to this test, if it's the point of care test using a blood droplet, their evaluation is that's it's not accurate enough to be reliable. It is essentially kabuki theatre (opinion!). Until they actually isolate the specific anti-bodies, it's a shot in the dark. Our hospital after looking at the data is not using that test at any of their facilities.

My wife's lab manager is a **** hot med lab scientist, super educated and a sharp cookie. She is one of the few people that when she actually lays out an opinion I take heed of.

Right. That's why I put "opinion" in the post. There is so much getting put out, it's easy to get lost in the whirlwind.

She is a sharp sharp cookie. But she does that funky blue winged eyeshade thing. It reminds me of the secretary from the drew carrie show. Samantha fish does that too. I hate that.

The sweet sinful release of Onanism moves you to tears?
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