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I’m curious why you don’t consider the Henry Ford trial as showing benefit for HCQ usage. it has even been peer reviewed.
Isn’t that backwards? Elective surgeries were halted very early on, so as not to overwhelm...most hospitals were not overwhelmed..so then hospitals use COVID cases and deaths for months to attempt to make up the revenue???
Elective surgeries shut down by Governors, might I add. Furthering the incentive for hospital administrators to stick it to the gov’t
This is what I thought. Hospitals are obviously trying to take advantage of Covid incentives.
@Canedawg2140 Would you clarify what your relative meant? If “what” doesn’t turn soon, then “it” will get messy.
was the opinion you stated your own, or were you repeating what other people say and the Fact that followed was to contradict the opinion?
I don’t really know anyone who doesn’t think this is pretty widespread. Most people I know think this was around longer than we’ve been told.
I personally think this is VERY widespread. All you have to do is look at the case distribution in Georgia. With only a few exceptions, which are mostly counties with smaller populations, the percentage of statewide cases in each county largely mirrors the percentage of the statewide population in each county. The news media would have you believe Atlanta is a “hotspot” but the percentage of cases here is actually a little less than the percentage of the states population. This thing doesn’t have anywhere left to spread.
That thing was shredded in peer review for being deeply flawed. It wasn't randomized for one and patients given HCQ were also more likely to be given steroids.
I found one study on Vit D and Covid particularly compelling. Granted, it was a small study. Perhaps that is what @YaleDawg meant when he said the data was “weak.” Nonetheless, when 100% of the subjects in ICU <75 years of age come back as vitamin D deficient then you have to take a deeper look ASAP.
Countries below 35 degrees latitude have suffered lower fatality rates. The ☀️ is good medicine.
I agree, I live in the Jacksonville area and during the "lockdown" I never saw a slow down. Stores crowded, Home Depot crowded and no masks. Now everyone I see is wearing a mask and the numbers are rising. What gives?
One of the Mayo Clinic Doctors I mentioned, was interviewed by a Jacksonville TV station but it never aired.
They're all based on correlations and never address confounding variables. Something like 35% of adults are vitamin D deficient and 50% are insufficient in America. If vitamin D was playing a major role I'd expect our numbers to be worse. Could it have an effect? Sure. Will supplements stop COVID-19? Probably not.
Hospital here in north Florida with whom I have a personal connection, are told to code as many as possible COVID related due to funding. If someone comes in brain dead from an overdose and tests positive then they are a COVID related death.
And they pick up 37K from the Government
You need to report your friend for ethical violations and breaking the law.
Agree, and the article I linked on the page above was just published. It was written by one of the foremost vitamin D experts in the world. He was one of the key doctors the Endocrine Society used to set their recommendations. The fact that he just published it should tell us a lot. He knows he can't make claims beyond the progress of the studies, but he finds a way to strongly recommend keeping your D level adequate and 40-60 ng/ml optimally. He is very familiar with all of the research on vitamin D.
The article stated that Orlando Health reported 76% positive rate in the VA hospital when the VA investigated it was 6% and they reported 98% positive rates fro Orlando Hospitals when it was really 9.4%. That is a pretty big disparity. And again I have a close personal put my hands on person from a local hospital that is told no matter what a person passes away from if they tested positive then code it as COVID 19. They test everyone and the positive results are out so reporting a death is not going to hurt them when they are already business as usual. Also this hospital is told to do multiple tests on positive patients until they test negative and each test is considered a new positive case.