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Your graph looks bad because that’s the objective. How someone draws and presents the graph has a lot to do with the message.
Exponentially? While technically true, you could also call doubling exponential growth. The media today is reporting “Record number of deaths for Texas.” That’s just sensationalism.
How about some reality. Texas has plenty of open ICU beds. The total case count for Texas is 366,000 vs NY’s 413,000. Deaths by comparison are 4300 vs 32000. Exponential implies something out of control and that is not the case
The vase majority of new cases are in the low risk group.
@Canedawg2140 Are schools starting to experience any teacher losses because of "pandemic pods" being formed by parents who are fearful of sending their kids back to the classroom? They are forming here in Atlanta. I met a young school teacher who had been offered $1600 a week to teach four kids at home for this school year. She is thinking about quitting her job to take the assignment.
The political demographics and potential resulting fallout on this are pretty interesting. Lots of irony and hypocrisy involved if this leads to a loss of good teachers in the system and more segregation in the schools.
@YaleDawg Do you know this guy who is a professor at Yale? You should set him straight on the facts.
I don't know the guy personally but it seems like sour grapes and ego at play. He wrote about using HCQ in an outpatient setting back in May and did interviews for a Yale publication around the same time but the RCT using it in that setting was published in early June showing it didn't work. Going on a partisan show to complain like that is not a great look for an academic. I'd say the same for someone going on Don Lemon's show.
Can we chill with the back and forth trying to instigate things? I swear this thread feels like babysitting preschoolers sometimes
It’s a debate. Point. Counterpoint. Possible you only call it instigating because it goes against your perspective? You seem to like to UV stuff the other way.
Stop silencing conservative voices. /s.
"You should set him straight on the facts" bit is probably what he is referring to.
I know exactly to what he was referring.
Also, there is no need to subtweet me, or whatever that other thing was.
He wasn't just referring to you.
I'm more interested in what you think of the RCT that contradicts Dr. Risch.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2016638
Actually @UGA_2019 is the king I was most referring to. You definitely have some bite in your posts at times. Both of you two do it to certain extents which makes others defend themselves.
I have no problems with debates as long as they are civil, but plumbing the depths for a reaction is not needed.
This is the first I have heard of this. Kind of like any job change, you have to be careful. A little more money this year may have you out of a job next year. Net $$$ quickly becomes a loss. Not to mention benefits, etc.
We are going back to school, so it's not much of an issue.
I could see where this could be an option for some in metro areas.
Like a lot of things, I believe education sees a big shift in ideology, methodology, and just everyday execution moving forward. A lot of good can come out of it. Just not sure if the pod thing will stick...
Aw dang, I didn’t get here in time to see it. @Kasey just PM it to me if you will.
I really would like an HCQ supporter's opinion on this
I see a lot of potential problems with that study.
What really jumps out to me is only being administered as a post-exposure prophylactic for 5 days for a virus that incubates for weeks. Why only 5 days? Seems too easy to have a group they continued administering. Subclinical persistance, anyone? Some areas of the World, such as Israel, would suggest subclinical persistence is a real issue with this virus. Even basic prescriptions for amoxicillin require a 10 day dosage to prevent future resistance in case any of the pathogen survives the early rounds.
Next, I may have overlooked this but I didn’t notice anything about how the participants were quarantined during the trial.
Of those diagnosed, only 16 were actually diagnosed by a test. Is that due to low viral load? If so, would continued treatment for more than 5 days have helped those people?
The best results I’ve read were in combination with zinc, and as an early treatment of people who have already tested positive. The HCQ was being used to facilitate the absorption of zinc. There is another trial, I believe in China, with Quercetin and zinc. Both chloriquine and Quercetin are zinc ionophores, which just means the primary purpose is facilitating zinc absorption.
I doubt many remember a few weeks ago I mentioned a supplement I take known as NAC. @Pedro asked where he could get it. Below is a great video by a doctor who gives a super simplified explanation and how he thinks NAC can play a role in fighting it. First, I suggest you scroll down to read a few of the comments to the video. I say this because it is a 24 minute video, so you may need some motivation to finish.