And in a Saints uniform:
Posted on 04/12/2020 9:55:28 AM PDT by rintintin
A former NFL player voiced support for the efficacy of an anti-malarial drug, hydroxychloroquine, that has been touted by President Trump as a treatment for the coronavirus.
On Friday, former Buffalo Bills tight end Mark Campbell told CNN the medicine helped him overcome the highly contagious disease that has put much of the global economy on hold.
"Fortunately for me, you know, they put me on some meds, the HGQ worked great for me, I will be honest with you there," Campbell said.
Campbell added that the entirety of his sickness lasted almost 30 days, and that he was recovering at home with his wife and children.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Placebo /s
He is lucky he survived Trump’s reckless unproven medical advice.
Anecdotal man/s...
Anecdotal (drink)
In related news: Shipment of Xanax was delivered to DNC HQ this morning.
So what? He’s been an athlete since before he entered Michigan in the mid 90’s and played 10 years in the NFL for three teams. He is 45 years old, under the targeted problem area. A couple of weeks before he contracted the virus, he was snow skiing, and thinks he got it there, at Gaylord for a weekend ski trip at Otsego Resort.
In an article from the Detroit Free Pres, he stated, “He never felt like he was on death’s doorstep, but he’s sharing his story to help others realize how serious and frightening the coronavirus pandemic is.”
Of course it doesn’t hurt matters that his story gets out as he is the founder and CEO of Medkinect, a medical supply company he started in 2009.
rwood
What? No fatal cardiac arrhythmia? /src
He played for the New Orleans Saints 2006-2008. He turned down an offer to play for the 2009 Saints team that won Super Bowl XLIV.
And in a Saints uniform:
Campbell’s interview was broadcast on CNN for one reason: CNN could then tell viewers about President Trump’s thirty-millionth Big Lie, this one re the availability of tests. The poor CNNer looked as though he was nauseous while Campbell said the meds worked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PG36hWAVXQ
I was wondering how this got on CNN. They’ve been negative on hydrioxy because Trump. Do they want their Blue State viewers to die?
The French study of 80 patients demonstrated that Plaquenil with Azithromycin significantly reduced the viral load of 83% of the patients. The controversy is over the lack of a control group to determine if the same random selection of patients would have gotten better anyway.
The only way to settle this is to have very frightened and sick people sign up for a study where they might have to endure weeks of suffering and potential death because they got put on the placebo rather than the active drug. The only reassurance they have is that if the unblinded study doctors see that there is a real clinical benefit they will get put on the real drug. Hopefully, they won’t be too sick or dead at that point to thank them for their consideration. How many doctors or patients will agree to this (unethical) medical practice?
Observational studies should be able to determine the benefits of Plaquenil in reducing the viral load compared to the natural histories of a large number of previously untreated patients. This type of causal analysis is more ethical than the ghoulish luck-of-the-draw RCT process in the middle of a pandemic.
They put my nephew on that hokum last Saturday while in ICU. He came home today. I think he should be a candidate for Fauci’s “double blind” being alive study.
Now there is some good Easter news! Thanks for posting.
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