Just have some questions here:
1. It does not define the patients being treated other than they are C-19 infected. Were they older, have outlying or serious triggering conditions, or were they even sick at all?
2. The use the word asymptomatic in the discussion of the patients being treated. The definition of that is (of a condition or a person) producing or showing no symptoms. Are they calling them a placebo?
3. The illness time frame for most is from onset to clinical recovery for mild cases approximately 2 weeks and is 3-6 weeks for patients with severe or critical disease. What you found by expanding the article is the treatment takes 6 weeks. So is it the treatment being successful or the illness taking its toll naturally? Again, they didn’t define the people being treated.
4. Why are they using azithromycin claiming to be part of the cure as it is for bacterial infection? They are dealing with a virus.
Something just isn’t quite right with this “miracle cure” they are touting. But I guess I can understand them trying to BS this as it is coming out of Shanghai trying to indicate they are trying to defeat this thing. They put it out there, and the longer they can try to cover it up the better their PR to hide that fact.
rwood
1) From the article, it says this: “as a result patients are recovering, decreasing their need for intensive care.”
This for me, implies that the cocktail is being administered EARLIER in the disease cycle ( which is what is emphasized by Dr. Zelenko), BEFORE a patient is hospitalized.
2) The article also states: “This is COVID-19 treatment protocol for prophylaxis, and it implies both asymptomatic and symptomatic along with other medicine support.”
I cannot answer what is “asymptomatic”. A careful doctor ( which I assume this Indian doctor is ) would make sure that a patient is POSITIVE for Covid-19 by tests even if asymptomatic ( which many people are ) before concluding that the cocktail works to cure the patient.
What is NOT acceptable as a conclusion, is to assume that even if a person does not display symptoms, he has Covid-19 ( without testing ). I don’t believe this doctor is that careless or fraudulent.