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2020-06-21 Science & Technology
US halts test of Trump-touted hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients
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Posted by trailing wife 2020-06-21 00:52|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 What's NIH's latest advice? Masks work best when worn with skinny jeans. Tattoos help too.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-21 02:36||   2020-06-21 02:36|| Front Page Top

#2 The Democrats hate the drug because Trump mentioned it first.
Every organization that has ideas for developing its own treatment or vaccine hates it because it is cheap and available, and works and they can make nothing from it.
Who then will give it a fair test?
Posted by daniel  2020-06-21 02:50||   2020-06-21 02:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Time to root out the TDS at NIH.
Posted by gorb 2020-06-21 04:53||   2020-06-21 04:53|| Front Page Top

#4 IMO, people on the Right who reject masks are just a mirror image of people on the Left who reject HCQ. And both are brothers to Muslims who reject Polio vaccine because it was created by a Jew.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-21 04:57||   2020-06-21 04:57|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't deny the science involved with masks. I deny your ability to tell me I must wear a mask.
Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-06-21 09:29||   2020-06-21 09:29|| Front Page Top

#6 ^I posted an article by Nassim Taleb, a couple days ago, that addresses your point.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-21 09:38||   2020-06-21 09:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Murc good one. By the way I just tried to do a search on "know cases of lupus patients with covid-19 "virus". Couldn't find any real numbers. Which leads me to guess "they" don't want us to know. Something to ponder. I'm willing to be Skid might find some.

As far as masks. I rarely if ever see anyone and I do mean anyone with real surgical masks.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-06-21 10:29||   2020-06-21 10:29|| Front Page Top

#8 It's all about the feelz. It makes them feel 'socially responsible'.
Posted by Bobby 2020-06-21 11:59||   2020-06-21 11:59|| Front Page Top

#9 This from the same people who can't decide whether masks are good or bad, think that ventilators are the sh*t and want us to stay in lockdown until there is a vaccine (i.e. potentially never).
Posted by Iblis 2020-06-21 13:19||   2020-06-21 13:19|| Front Page Top

#10  I don't deny the science involved with masks. I deny your ability to tell me I must wear a mask.

I haven’t noticed g(r)omgoru telling anyone they must wear a mask, merely that it will make a significant difference. Nor does he have any enforcement powers, either at home or over Americans.

This is not a binary, yes/no question; when the number of hospitalizations is too high or increasing, or when people are closely crowded together, or when a subpopulation (old folks in retirement homes or those with the wrong co-morbidities) is particularly at risk, mask wearing is the right thing to do. Among the healthy, where people have plenty of space, or when hospitalizations are at a reasonable level or deceasing, mask wearing is unnecessary. And this will hold true beyond the current pandemic — hopefully when flu season comes round in the autumn, people will pull out their masks if they or those around them fall into high risk categories. Ditto working from home and washing hands more frequently.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-06-21 16:38||   2020-06-21 16:38|| Front Page Top

#11 In Germany wearing a mask is mandatory on public transport and shops. People follow these rules because they make sense. Wearing a mask in crowded situation is the right thing to do. For obvious reason. If you wear a masks you reduce the risk of infecting others, and if the person next to you wears a mask he reduces the risk of infecting you. If both wear masks, the mutual benefit is obvious.

Wearing a mask vor 30 minutes or so isn't really a big sacrifice.

Outdoors, in non-cramped situations, most people take their masks off. Infection risk is minimal.

Wearing a mask shouldn't be a political issue.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-06-21 16:49||   2020-06-21 16:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Also, Israel remains in a state of low grade war that could go hot if the Arabs believe Israeli defenses have been weakened, which changes the risk evaluation. They can’t have entire units down with even a bad cold at the wrong time — and often the troops go home for the weekend, which makes most of the population front-line-adjacent.

This also should mean Israel requiring American visitors and others to either take a course of hydroxychloroquine-plus or be quarantined for two weeks before being released to wander the country at will.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-06-21 16:49||   2020-06-21 16:49|| Front Page Top

#13 Sunday evening typos...
Posted by European Conservative 2020-06-21 16:51||   2020-06-21 16:51|| Front Page Top

#14 It really doesn't seem that hydroxychloroquine is working in any significant ways.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-06-21 16:52||   2020-06-21 16:52|| Front Page Top

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