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Also funny how you chose only the report from New York with elderly patients with a host of existing maladies, not the ones reporting 100% success, zero intubations etc |
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I do not understand the negative Nick’s and Nancy’s. Why would you want these reports to be untrue? Where there is any successful treatment, there is hope. If it were your lungs screaming for help wouldn’t you jump at the chance for something that might help? What is wrong with you people? You pontificate beautifully but offer nothing positive.
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It's possible that a person might recover from COVID-19 without any special medicine - and we know this, because tens of thousands of people have recovered from it, without any special medicine. It's also possible that this medicinal cocktail can provide an effective treatment. It is ALSO possible that this medicinal cocktail, when taken by the wrong person, will kill that person. The same person who MIGHT have recovered without any special medicinal intervention at all. We don't know, that this medicine is both effective AND safe to use for this particular sickness. We know it's safe and effective for malaria for MOST people (there are exceptions here too). But this isn't malaria and a chemical interaction between the virus and the drug and the OTHER drug this is being combined with - could very well be a death sentence, to someone who might not have died without it. |
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There are direct quotes by all the Doctors in the articles. They are dealing with an epidemic and lots of sick people. Maybe you should email them and let them know they're not doing science and to stop giving interviews.
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What's your source for your statement that going on a ventilator is "more than likely" a death sentence? I've never heard that one before, ever in my life. In fact - ventilators are used to save lives, not end them. If you're just waxing philosophical or applying a heavy dose of hyperbole and rhetoric, that's the sort of thing that scares people into doing very stupid, very dangerous things out of desperation. Those are the very things that some of us here are trying to prevent, by presenting facts, and challenging internet theories. |
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A recent study published in the NEJM saw about a 50% mortality rate for COVID-19 patients who went on a ventilator. Other sources have varying percentages up to to 80%. It is pretty clear that if you have COVID-19 and go on a ventilator your chances of survival are not good.
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"Smith, who is treating 72 COVID-19 patients, said that he has been treating "everybody with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin [an antibiotic]. We’ve been doing so for a while.” ...not a single COVID-19 patient of his that has been on the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin regimen for five days or more has had to be intubated. “The chance of that occurring by chance, according to my sons Leon and Hunter who did some stats for me, are .000-something,” he said, adding that “it’s ridiculously low."" According to the description of services on his clinic's website, he provides primarily outpatient care. He is not an ICU intensivist. So it is reasonable but not certain that the everybody he is treating are mostly outpatients. As 80% of symptomatic outpatients with Covid never need hospitalization, and only 5% of patients ever make it to an ICU, and only some of them end up on a ventilator. I looked for five minutes and couldn't find a percent of outpatients that need a vent. If it were the entire 5% then does it seem nearly impossible that you might treat 72 without any of them ending up on a vent? And we don't know if all his 72 were even symptomatic. It gets worse.. Now listen to what Smith actually says about his success... play the Fox video. He tells you that he has many patients that ended up on a vent, and almost all of them were on a vent within 2 days of diagnosis. So those who end up on a vent, in his practice, all deteriorated very quickly. He then says, that those who finished all 5 days of meds didn't end up on a vent. In other words, some who were on meds for fewer than 5 days ended on a vent. So the statistic that 5% of Covid patients doesn't even work here. You'd have to know What percent of patients who after finding out they are Covid positive end up on a vent after at least five days! He has really fudged his numbers. As you don't get the Covid test back for 2 to 7 days he is throwing out of his data anyone admitted to the hospital before getting tests back. His reporting a very select group of patients who got sick slowly. Are you surprised that patients who were doing well continued to do well? And yes I am aware that patients with Covid usually have a period of mild illness first. But those people are generally not being tested. It is the retrospective report of the length of symptoms prior to being tested because of worsening that gives us that history. This report is not only anecdotal, it is clinically meaningless. Apparently his sons Leon and Hunter didn't take a vigorous statistics course. I don't think .000-something is a recognized value.
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It's pretty clear that if you have COVID-19 and have to go on a ventilator, it's because your chances of survival without it were not good. WITH the ventilator, your chances of survival are better than they would have been if you didn't go on it. 50% chance of survival on a ventilator is better than 10% chance of survival for someone who needed it, and didn't get it. |
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Flawed logic?? Wrong. I didn't propose any theory and didn't make any statements about whether you should or shouldn't go on a ventilator and going on a ventilator does not cause you to die. Go back and reread my post. I simply stated the mortality rate of people with COVID-19 who went on a ventilator. If your condition degrades to the point of needing a ventilator, your chances of dying are good. Don't read too much into this and try to complicate it - it is really pretty simple.
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I take a little time to put together a cogent post to try to explain the problems with these reports. I read the article, I watch the video. A do some side research to check the data and to find data about known illness patterns and natural disease history. So maybe I do them one at a time when you post two links. Maybe you will not find it so "funny" anymore that I didn't mention the 100% Fox story. Because as you see above, I was working on it. Hope you learned something reading it which might help you begin to develop the skills of critical reading and scientific analysis that I find worthwhile in evaluating these reports. Sorry your gotcha didn't strike home. YMMV
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One thing I did notice in the Fox video was that both the doctors took time to warn about the potential for significant cardiac risk from these drugs. One mentioned doing a baseline EKG and frequent follow up EKGs to watch for changes. They both know that this risk can develop very quickly with these drugs, long term therapy is not required. There are many reports from recent hydroxychloroquine usage in Covid of having to stop the drug because of changes, including some in the Fox segment. I mention this now because in an earlier thread somebody claimed that the FDA said it only was a risk after six months, because that person did not understand the difference between no risk before six months, and increase risk after six months. What the FDA clearly said was risk increased with duration of medication. It never said there was no risk with shorter duration. But the author of that post misunderstood what was written and claimed that posters who warned about cardiac risk were wrong.
Your google fu is not quite up to the task. Plaquenil and Arrhythmias - from FDA reports Summary: Arrhythmias is found among people who take Plaquenil, especially for people who are female, 60+ old , have been taking the drug for 6-12 months ,..(FDA) "See that part about taking it for 6-12 months? They are prescribing these drugs for 6 days." |
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