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[IANAD] hydroxychloroquine is an immunosuppressant and shouldn't be combined even with vaccines ( https://www.medicinenet.com/hydroxychloroquine/article.htm#w... ), so using it when immune system is ...
show context + On: Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroq
show context + On: Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroq
The thought occurred to me as well, I got a strong sense of "playing with fire." However, viruses have a very high mutation rate as it is [1], so I'm not sure how much difference it makes.Bt...
show context + On: Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroq
show context + On: Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroq
An in-vitro pre-print study ( https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.29.014407v1 ) showed that administering Hydroxychloroquine only after Covid-19 infection is not helping much, while admini...
show context + On: Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroq
show context + On: Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroq
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Nobody seems to be talking about the actual reason Chinese doctors found chloroquine (and HCQ) interesting and it has nothing to do with it's immunosuppressing effect:1) Chloroquine (and HCQ) is a zin...
show context + On: Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroq
show context + On: Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroq
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Some restaurant suppliers have opened their online store to individuals. I can't speak for California, but in New York City we just shopped yesterday on baldor[1]. For most items the minimum quantity ...
show context + On: Amazon Isn't the Only Shop Online
show context + On: Amazon Isn't the Only Shop Online
This morning we had:France ex-IHU Marseille/AP-HP: 79160 cases, 7527 dead, mortality rate 9.5%IHU Marseille/AP-HP: 3005 cases, 33 dead, mortality rate 1.1%France doesn't use HCQ consistently yet. Didi...
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
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Isolation (physical distancing) would cause this. Flu doesn't have a long incubation, and doesn't survive as well (AFAICT, not a medic) outside bodies.Isolation should reduce all virus transmission an...
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
> There is absolutely no evidence that HCQ or HCQ/azithromycin would have any effect on seriously ill patients with viral pneumoniaIt's supposed to be taken BEFORE you become seriously ill and develop...
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
show context + On: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
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My basis is looking at Spain and Italy which seem to be past their peak, recovered % is rising.https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
The tone behind chiefalchemist's comment is not appropriate ("Communist China" intends to evoke specific emotions, which doesn't have a place on hackernews).That said, while the citation for...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
CDC says USA deaths are at 6,500 as of yesterday 4th April [1]Considering they were reported in the news[2] as 600 on Tues 23rd, 1000 on Thurs 25th, 2000 on Sat 28th, 3700 on Mon 31st, and the infecti...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
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Let's presume this death rate is accurate to within an order of 2- 1.33% to 0.33%. We can use that to do some interesting estimates on the true infection rate.https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
For a country with ~10% over 70 years old, and assuming infection fatality rate of ~6% among those, then IFR would already be 0.6%. So suppose that what you've read is the current statistics, it does ...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
> Based on Diamond Princess data, where almost everyone was tested, the lower bound of COVID19's IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) should be > 0.5% for many/most countries.No, you can't compare a country'...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
Based on Diamond Princess data, where almost everyone was tested, the lower bound of COVID19's IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) should be > 0.5% for many/most countries.This uses a data source independen...
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
show context + On: Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study
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No, the numbers are very bad.There's approx. 860 acute and ICU beds empty (from the text chart) for Santa Clara County, which has about 3-4 million people. So that will be full in about 1-2 weeks.In ...
show context + On: Silicon Valley Live Hospital Bed Data
show context + On: Silicon Valley Live Hospital Bed Data
Before anyone goes collecting sewage samples, consider deriving your scaling factors from discrepencies in ICD-10 diagnostic encoding practices.- Stacked bar chart: https://twitter.com/OccupyWallSt/st...
show context + On: Sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak
show context + On: Sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak
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