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2020-03-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Fred 2020-03-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 ^Gracias mods.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-19 06:08|| 2020-03-19 06:08|| Front Page Top

#2 There are a couple ongoing studies with Chloroquine that I'm paying attention to. Seems to be doing some good with the infected and may possibly be a prophylaxis.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-03-19 08:24|| 2020-03-19 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Italy's fleet of the dead: Military trucks transport scores of coronavirus victims' coffins to be cremated as footage from one hospital shows infected patients lining the corridors

Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-19 11:50|| 2020-03-19 11:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Young and Stupid: 20 Percent of COVID-19 Hospitalizations Are Age 20-44

Posted by DarthVader 2020-03-19 13:30|| 2020-03-19 13:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Update: President Trump confirmed Thursday that Hydroxychloroquine has been approved by FDA for prescription treatment of COVID-19.

Original Post:
As the Wuhan coronavirus is ravaging countries across the globe, there may be some promising news on the horizon. According to Gregory Rigano, an advisor to Stanford University School of Medicine, a world renowned French researcher tested a promising COVID-19 treatment option with hydroxychloroquine, a drug that’s been around for decades and is typically used to treat malaria.

“As of this morning…a well-controlled peer reviewed study carried out by the most eminent infectious disease specialist in the world—Didier Raoult, MD, PhD—out of the south of France, in which he enrolled 40 patients…that showed a 100 percent cure rate against coronavirus," Rigano told Fox News's Tucker Carlson.

Carlson, looking shocked, said he “only knows what you’re telling me” but that it is “very unusual for a study of anything to produce results of 100 percent.”

Posted by Spike Hupush2094 2020-03-19 13:43|| 2020-03-19 13:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Trump announces FDA making anti-malaria drug available to test coronavirus treatment

Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-19 16:40|| 2020-03-19 16:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Why Italy and EU death tolls will be higher: Socialized Medicine/Health Care.

All the Euro countries have something similar to what the Italians call Criteria for Access. Once you hit 80 or have existing conditions, you are a burden to the system.

CfA starts like this,

"The criteria for access to intensive therapy in cases of emergency must include age of less than 80 or a score on the Charlson Comorbidity Index [which indicates how many other medical conditions the patient has] of less than 5."

Posted by mossomo 2020-03-19 17:04|| 2020-03-19 17:04|| Front Page Top

#8 re #7: in other words, the death panels the US was warned about.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2020-03-19 17:29|| 2020-03-19 17:29|| Front Page Top

#9 " [The]Fastest way to kill the coronavirus is to convince Hillary Clinton that it will testify against her."

Yeah, I stole it....

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-03-19 17:32|| 2020-03-19 17:32|| Front Page Top

#10 ^Unless one is rich, RiV.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-19 17:33|| 2020-03-19 17:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Italy has a number of problems not related to the type of health insurance system.

Older population. Many multigeneration households. The older people in their 70s and 80s had high incidence of smoking. Heavy use of antibacterial agents has left them vulnerable to a bacterial infection that sneaks in when the virus disrupts the immune system. Lots of diabetics.

Posted by lord garth 2020-03-19 18:14|| 2020-03-19 18:14|| Front Page Top

#12 re #7 "age of less than 80 or a score on the Charlson Comorbidity Index of less than 5."

IOW, IIUC -- and I ask this fondly mindful of an ancient ancestor who benefitted greatly from prolonged, expensive treatment in old age -- a centenarian diabetic on dialysis would meet the CfA? Or one with dementia, CHF, and lymphoma? Or a patient just shy of eighty suffering every ailment, self-inflicted and otherwise, known to science?

Sure, bureucrats suck and all, but is that really "Comrade Janitor, drag Granny out back and shoot 'er!" territory?

Posted by Marilyn Elmeque9472 2020-03-19 22:59|| 2020-03-19 22:59|| Front Page Top

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