The meta doesn’t include that study. Results are still overwhelmingly positive.
Again, which Big Pharma employs you?
I don’t work for big oharma which is the go to attack when the data used to support weak treatment choices is presented. As rush used to say — comm sense guided by experience. Have you ever used ivermectin to test this disease? I have. Several times. And seen despite everything I threw at it the disease progressed.
Have you ever ordered monoxlonals? I have. Seen those teetering on the brink turn around in 12 hours
Have you ever used medications off label? I have. Tocilizumab. Seen it work much better in critical illness. Probable has saved a few lives
Do you currently attend an ICU full of Covid patients? I do. All of them are unvaccinated?
Do you network with tones of physicians in the doctors dining room where you find out what’s going on in your city? I do. This thing has been exploding for a week now. It’s real. It exists?
Have you stood at bedside with people dying because they thought this whole thing was fake? I have. Taken care of families stunned that Covid is real and it is deadly
This article simply confirms what I see in observation everyday. I have always been an early adapter to whatever might work. Many things have come and gone into the failure bin. Adapting is the key to practicing medicine in the face of the unknown.
So here is what I can tell you and in my medical judgment is the best way to deal with this disease
1. Get vaccinated. Of course it should be voluntary
2. If for some reason you choose not to get vaccinated and if you get sick …. Without delay start decadron 6 mg a day for five days. If you have any risk factors without delay week Regeneron infusion. You have about 10’days from symptom onset
3. If you don’t get regenerron and end up in the hospital make sure that your family advocates for a single dose of tocilizumab. Get this is your oxygen demand starts to increase and your markers of inflammation start to go off the rails (LDH, ferritin, d-dimer, CRP, lymphopenia)
This is a detailed stepwise approach to survive a disease that can be very deadly that is actually based on good data verified by studies
I wish you good health and the best of luck as this last wave gets us to herd immunity.