kickingandscreaming
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Improved treatment options are a big deal. I haven't seen/heard much of any of it recently. Please post any you have seen.
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Rheumatoid arthritis drug reduces risk of death for severely ill hospitalized Covid-19 patients, researchers say
Tocilizumab, an intravenous anti-inflammatory drug used for rheumatoid arthritis, has been shown to reduce the risk of death for patients hospitalized with severe Covid-19, as well as reducing the risk of ventilation and the amount of time until discharged from hospital.
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Part of the issue is a lot of drugs have been shown to help including hdq and invermectin (sp?) but they don’t have eu authorization due to politics and fda limitations. So you have to rely on doctors working off script. I don’t know which drugs have gotten the eu authorization (if someone knows please post) but it’s supposedly a lot less than the known treatmdnts that work
If by "hdq" you mean hydroxychloroquine, it's not politics that holds back approval.. It is a lack of demonstrated benefit.
Don’t have the time right now to look it up for you but there have been several studies now that show some mild-moderate benefits if admined early
"Hydroxychloroquine did not substantially reduce symptom severity in outpatients with early, mild COVID-19."
Hydroxychloroquine in Nonhospitalized Adults With Early COVID-19: A Randomized Trial: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 173, No 8
Background: No effective oral therapy exists for early coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Objective: To investigate whether hydroxychloroquine could reduce COVID-19 severity in adult outpatients. Design: Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial conducted from 22 March through 20 May...
www.acpjournals.org
Here's a good summary of why there aren't a whole lot of good therapeutics (and unlikely to be a whole lot more in the near future). Part of it is the very high threshold for testing set out by the FDA. Part of it too is just Fauci...he made the decision early on to go all in on the vaccines (which is now coming back to bite all of us in the ass since the vaccines are not 100% effective). Without doing a deep dive onto Fauci, It's hard to speculate the reasons why.
Where Are the Therapeutics to Combat COVID-19?
Scientists and policy makers are looking more sharply at the lag in identifying and producing medicines to moderate early infections and to treat seriously ill patients.
www.biopharminternational.com
"Hydroxychloroquine did not substantially reduce symptom severity in outpatients with early, mild COVID-19."
Hydroxychloroquine in Nonhospitalized Adults With Early COVID-19: A Randomized Trial: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 173, No 8
Background: No effective oral therapy exists for early coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Objective: To investigate whether hydroxychloroquine could reduce COVID-19 severity in adult outpatients. Design: Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial conducted from 22 March through 20 May...www.acpjournals.org
Yeah there are some contra too. Regardless, I agree it isn't a magic bullet. I agree the evidence is in dispute and there's more contra than pro.
Hydroxychloroquine may have some use to treat COVID after all, NJ study shows
A study by Hackensack Meridian Health shows the controversial anti-inflammatory drug may help people with mild COVID symptoms.
www.northjersey.com
Yeah there are some contra too. Regardless, I agree it isn't a magic bullet. I agree the evidence is in dispute and there's more contra than pro.
Hydroxychloroquine may have some use to treat COVID after all, NJ study shows
A study by Hackensack Meridian Health shows the controversial anti-inflammatory drug may help people with mild COVID symptoms.www.northjersey.com
From that article-- "It was widely used in hospitals during a time of unprecedented desperation, a practice that stopped after some studies found no clinical benefit for seriously ill patients."
Here's a good summary of why there aren't a whole lot of good therapeutics (and unlikely to be a whole lot more in the near future). Part of it is the very high threshold for testing set out by the FDA. Part of it too is just Fauci...he made the decision early on to go all in on the vaccines (which is now coming back to bite all of us in the ass since the vaccines are not 100% effective). Without doing a deep dive onto Fauci, It's hard to speculate the reasons why.
Where Are the Therapeutics to Combat COVID-19?
Scientists and policy makers are looking more sharply at the lag in identifying and producing medicines to moderate early infections and to treat seriously ill patients.www.biopharminternational.com
You're wrong about Fauci.
Nah he’s a moron in love with his own farts and selfish importance, a political hack, a hypocrite when it comes to his own restrictions and he’s been more wrong than right.
Thank you for providing confirmation of my statement.
It’s what he is
Fauci Awarded $1 Million Israeli Prize For 'Speaking Truth To Power' Amid Pandemic
The prize committee said Dr. Anthony Fauci, long-time head of the United States' leading infectious diseases research institute, "is the consummate model of leadership and impact in public health."
www.npr.org
You mean like why dogs have no money. Because they don’t have pockets.
The growing evidence that the Covid-19 vaccines can reduce transmission, explained — Vox
Here’s what we know about how the vaccines protect against spread of the virus.
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kickingandscreaming
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When the NY Times is talking about "Normalcy" as soon as this summer, that's good news.
Not zero, but normalcy |
Covid is caused by a coronavirus — known as SARS-CoV-2 — and coronaviruses often circulate for years, causing respiratory infections and the common cold. The world is not going to extinguish coronaviruses anytime soon, nor will it extinguish this specific one. “The coronavirus is here to stay,” as a recent article in the science journal Nature, by Nicky Phillips, concluded. |
The reasonable goal is to make it manageable, much like the seasonal flu. Fortunately, the vaccines are doing that. In fact, they’re doing better than that. For fully vaccinated people, serious illness from Covid is extremely rare, much rarer than serious illness from the seasonal flu. |
Israel, the country that has vaccinated the largest share of its population, offers a case study. One recent analysis looked at 602,000 Israelis who had received Covid vaccines and found that only 21 later contracted the virus and had to be hospitalized. Twenty-one is obviously not zero. Vaccines are almost never perfect. But the Covid vaccines are turning it into the sort of risk that people accept every day. |
Here’s a useful way to think about Israel’s numbers: Only 3.5 out of every 100,000 people vaccinated there were later hospitalized with Covid symptoms. During a typical flu season in the U.S., by comparison, roughly 150 out of every 100,000 people are hospitalized with flu symptoms. |
And yet the seasonal flu does not grind life to a halt. It does not keep people from flying on airplanes, eating in restaurants, visiting their friends or going to school and work. |
The vaccines will not produce “Covid zero.” But they are on pace — eventually, and perhaps even by summer — to produce something that looks a lot like normalcy. The rare exceptions won’t change that, no matter how much attention they receive. |