Posted on 03/24/2020 6:08:40 PM PDT by david1292
Assuming that you are genuinely asking a real question and not being snarky, my response was to the following comment by Norseman:
What the doctor actually said is that a trial with a placebo arm when dealing with a deadly disease should be considered unethical. Instead, one or more different current treatments should be compared with the proposed new treatment. That way, it made more sense. You shouldn’t put someone who is likely to die without treatment on a placebo.
The following is an excerpt from the CDC Tuskegee Study - Timeline:
In 1932, the Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute, began a study to record the natural history of syphilis in hopes of justifying treatment programs for blacks. It was called the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.”
The study initially involved 600 black men – 399 with syphilis, 201 who did not have the disease. The study was conducted without the benefit of patients’ informed consent. Researchers told the men they were being treated for “bad blood,” a local term used to describe several ailments, including syphilis, anemia, and fatigue. In truth, they did not receive the proper treatment needed to cure their illness. In exchange for taking part in the study, the men received free medical exams, free meals, and burial insurance. Although originally projected to last 6 months, the study actually went on for 40 years.
Does that answer your question?
I believe madison10 was directing his question to me, which I answered. Hopefully my comment will clear up the confusion with this conversation.
I'd like to think that when this is all over, that people will take a hard look and rethink their party loyalty that elects and reelects these feckless politicians. There was so much that NY and NYC could have done with their budgets (and in the case of NYC a budget surplus) to have been better prepared for this event than they are.
Instead of doling money out to the various unions for their support, pork laden projects and deferred priorities to keep the donors happy, they could have spent their budgets on the things that Cuomo and DeBlasio are (literally) crying for right now and their people would be more safer than they are today.
However, I thought the same thing after 9/11.....
(This, by no means is disparaging the great NYPD, it's an observation and hopefully seven percent are not sick....)
That's the underlying message I'm seeing. The medications exist and have long been approved. Once everyone gets the same treatment, although the virus won't have been eradicated, there is a weapon that will keep us alive, should we be so unlucky as to contract it, and maybe end up in hospital. Best scenario would be, local GP prescribes, take the medication go to bed, up and about in 5 or six days...
THANK PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR LEADING THE WAY!
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