“We haven’t had anyone under 70 who didn’t have a very high BMI, or was pre or diabetic, get seriously ill,” he said. “This is amazing stuff.”
I’m not sure how to decipher this...
So they’re saying that the drugs did not help patients under 70 that were obese or had diabetes/pre-diabetes?
It seems to contradict the headline.
The way I understood his statement was that one group had people under the age of 70 that was filled with diabetics, pre-diabetics, and people who had very high BMIs. None of those people got sick enough to need intubation. They were all in a high risk group. That’s why he ended with, “this is amazing stuff.”
>>So they’re saying that the drugs did not help patients under 70 that were obese or had diabetes/pre-diabetes?<<
Not quite, and you’re right, it’s poorly written.
I think what he means is that the only people who progressed to a serious case (and possibly a ventilator) AND were under 70 were either obese or diabetic/pre-diabetic. But that was before they got four or five days of the drug combo into them.
It sounds like (again—confusing) after the first two days, he started putting everyone on the drug combo and from then on, no one progressed to a serious case, whether fat or diabetic, or over 70 or even 80. That’s what it sounded like he was saying, but again, very unclear. If that is happening though, it would explain both his “game changer” comment and his “.000 something” remark.
By the way, if this does continue to work out, we will be able to trigger the TDS-afflicted just by working “game changer” into any casual conversation (about anything at all) since President Trump was, indeed, the first to publicly (very publicly) use that phrase when referring to the use of HCQ.