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Re: COVID-19 Check-in
Respectully, I'd hardly consider them "unproven". Hydroxychloroquine was approved by FDA in 1955 for Lupus and RA and Azithromycin was first approved by FDA in 1996. Sufficient data exists on safety and adverse events for each of these drugs and counterindications of these classes of drugs are also established.
Is there sufficient data to prove efficacy to a clinical endpoint in a controlled study specific to COVID-19? There is not. But does that warrant not considering off-label use which is done regularly around the world by physicians without clinical data for other conditions?
If you think "widespread use of unproven drugs" is an objective headline, then I think we'll need to agree to disagree on this particular point.
razorachilles
Re: Just for fun, if you have a dog(s), what kind?
German Short-haired Pointer. Everyone thinks he’s a lab because he’s solid liver rather than roan like most GSPs.
He’s been helping me work from home.
mattmd2
Re: COVID-19 Check-in
All is still well in my part of Germany. Haven't seen much of an impact from the actual virus yet. However my friend who lives in New Hampshire, close to the border with Mass, thinks his whole family caught it last week. Both Mid 30's with a two year old. He said they had all the symptoms except shortness of breath/chest tightness and were told not to go to the hospital or get tested. Had to self quarantine. He said him and his wife both got fevers of 104 and were pretty much confined to their bed. Just completely wiped them out for three days but then on the fourth day it was like nothing had happened and they were back to normal. The week prior their son had what they thought was a bad flu that turned into pneumonia. He said the doctor told them the xrays of his lungs looked like a 70 years old who smoked their entire life. Pretty scary stuff. He thinks they caught it from their son who had gone to the Boston Aquarium and in their opinion picked it up while there. These are the first people that I know personally that have had the virus and they said it was no joke and to take the precautions seriously. He also previously believed that the economic impacts of the reaction to the virus is going to be worse then the actual virus. I haven't asked him if he still stands by that yet as they just got over it and i don't think the timing is right yet but i'll let you guys know if his opinion changed after having it.
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