Posted on 11/25/2020 9:55:54 AM PST by SJackson
Doctors should follow the evidence for promising therapies. Instead they demand certainty.
Fear and panic are central impediments to competent decision-making during a crisis....political leaders are reaching for last spring’s lockdown playbooks...as if politicians have no choice but again to restrict civil liberties, limit social gatherings, and cripple businesses that survived the initial lockdowns. But there’s a better way: following the evidence for early treatment of Covid-19.
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Too many doctors have interpreted the term “evidence-based medicine” to mean that the evidence for a treatment must be certain and definitive before it can be given to patients.
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Requiring a high degree of certainty during a crisis may elevate the augustness of medical organizations and appease the sensibilities of medical professionals, but it does nothing for patients who need help.
The penchant for certainty is visible in the frequently updated treatment guidelines for Covid-19 from the National Institutes of Health.
...snip... This framework almost certainly has contributed to many avoidable deaths during this pandemic.
Take the antidepressant fluvoxamine. A high-quality, randomized clinical trial of 152 patients published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that zero patients treated with fluvoxamine within seven days of the onset of symptoms experienced clinical deterioration compared with 8% of patients receiving a placebo.
Another randomized trial of 200 health-care workers and other adults at high risk of exposure found that 2% of those treated with the antiparasitic ivermectin developed Covid-19 compared with 10% of patients in a control group. A meta-analysis of five randomized clinical trials showed that early use of hydroxychloroquine reduced infection, hospitalization and death by 24%. All of these findings were statistically significant. These medications have been used for decades and have safety profiles comparable to other commonly prescribed medications.
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Once again I would lay this squarely at the feet of Mike Pence and his utter failure to control the panic-mongering messaging that came out of his task force.
The Hippocratic Oath says “do no harm”, not “be certain it works”.
Yeah....Pence could’ve done more to get a great, POSITIVE message out, in front of the MSM LIES!!
And, from some of the confounding info coming from his own task force.
This is what the whole “Safety at any Cost” mindset brings.
No risk, no reward USED to be the way we lived. Then we allowed the fearful of the world a platform. This “nobody can ever die from anything ever again” is a direct result of bleeding heart emotion driven policies and indoctrination.
Pence needed to realize that Job #1 for him was MESSAGE CONTROL.
Instead he allowed himself to get buried in the minutia of PPE supply chains. Not a good indicator if he plans on one day being POTUS. Need to be a Big Picture guy.
Even Trump admitted their covid messaging was poor but I never saw him do anything about it once he mentioned it
That’s a fair criticism of Trump frankly.
Fauci was the messenger and that was the problem.
And Pence allowed Fauci to be the messenger.
And frankly Trump should have put a stop to it.
What about the right to try thing that Trump instituted?
If it applies to terminal cancer patients why not COVID patients?
I wish they would hold the media accountable.
If this was Pence’s race he would have conceded on the 3rd. Just my opinion.
Yep..never forget ..Pence is a politician...and old school politics is ingrained in their DNA...they do not think “outside the box”
Lockdowns now have 2 purposes. One is to prevent the economy from improving while Trump is in office so that any improvement will happen after Biden is president. The second is to keep people from gathering in large groups and discussing politics which might get them upset at their governors.
Very good question!
By the way, anyone who is sick and wants a specific treatment should *privately* ask their own physician about off-label use, at a time when they are completely alone with their physician. Ask any nurse or attendant for privacy with your doctor.
That's going to backfire on them because with the lockdown he's promised, the economy is going to tank for sure.
The second is to keep people from gathering in large groups and discussing politics which might get them upset at their governors.
That's not working either. And it doesn't matter if they are large groups. Small groups work just as well.
I’m already doing that, but that doesn’t work when the powers out there trying to subjugate us are paying them.
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