A lot of people live quite well with a semicolon...
Posted on 04/07/2020 6:24:56 AM PDT by FreedomPoster
For hospitalized patients with COVID‐19 who have evidence of pneumonia, we suggest hydroxychloroquine (or chloroquine) on a case‐by‐case basis. Requirements include all of the following: a) shared decision‐making in which the patient is informed about the possible benefits and potential side effects, b) collection of data in a manner that enables studies that use valid methods for causal inference and control of confounders for the purpose of interim assessment, c) the patient’s clinical condition is sufficiently severe to warrant investigational therapy, and d) there is not a shortage of drug supply. 73% for intervention, 16% no suggestion, and 11% against intervention.
(Excerpt) Read more at thoracic.org ...
What we have is the first recommended use of HCQ by a significant American medical society that I know of.
Ping.
Pending empirical evidence.
Translation: Pending proof from a real trial.
As our President said, what the hell do you have to lose?
Thanks for posting.
I invite you to read Dr. Raoult’s comments on that from his interview.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3829567/posts
Do your loved ones get the placebo?
No. I want to stay away from people until there is a clinically tested and proven result.
But of course, the drug has been approved...so I am not sure what the hoopla is all about. Go ahead and take it if you want. Hope it doesn’t wreck your colon or your heart.
That’s at least a year off, the way that game is played.
See you in a year or so.
That’s fine under normal circumstances, but if you’re at death’s door and nothing else is helping it’s not unreasonable to risk the side effects and give it a try.
And it’s approved for that.
I am not sure why you guys are in a frenzy about this.
bkmk
Good to read - thanks!
I read the whole thing (well almost) The important parts anyway. HCQ is the drug most accepted and the only one reaching their threshold so I only skimmed the other drugs. I also didn’t read the participants names or bios.
As far as this being a “stick your neck out” recommendation it ISN’T.
The whole beginning of the document is all about CYA. So there is alot there for naysayers.
The good part is VERY limited. “Suggesting” the use of HCQ in only VERY limited applications (you have to be dying essentially).
What a bunch of timid PUSSIES! “SCIENTISTS” UGH!
So, this is NOT the hill/report worth dying over.
It’s NOT the great news it was purported to be.
A better way to characterize it would be “better than nothing” that’s all.
A lot of people live quite well with a semicolon...
Do not read this like a “gotcha” because it’s not. But it is dark.
My wife had a twisted colon two weeks ago Sunday. It nearly killed her. She had to have emergency surgery in this midst of all this crap. The pretty much took out half her colon. Really nasty, bad stuff.
Since she is a writer my kids started calling her “semi colon” (after she was out of the woods, of course.)
Your comic made me laugh.
Go to:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-point
Read the hover on the comic, then mash the red button.
(Glad she’s out of the woods, I’d hold off on showing her the cartoon until the stitches are out and the incision is fully healed...)
Oh yes...the semi colon joke was tepid at best.
No one is dying on this hill. It is the first positive breath from an American body that I know of, and is worth noting for that reason.
Do you know of another?
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