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Re: Malaria drugs fail to help coronavirus patients in controlled studies

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 19 Apr 20 2:05 PM | 24 view(s)
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Examine how things work among Bananarepublicans, and discover why they always seem to get it wrong.

1. Start with a fantasy: an existing drug will magically make the problem go away.

2. Advertise the fantasy.

3. Worry about evidence afterwards.

4. When the evidence comes back negative, ignore it and the damage it has done.

5. Never apologise or review the cause of the error.

6. Move onto the next fantasy.

There's no conversation to be had with someone who adopts that approach. For malaria drug, put Benghazi, trickle down economics, Seth Rich, Pizzagate, birtherism, etc etc. In the end, folks who work with facts can't be bothered to talk with fantasists.




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Malaria drugs fail to help coronavirus patients in controlled studies
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Sun, 19 Apr 20 1:59 PM 		Msg. 35738 of 54959

Headline on Drudge

The malaria drugs touted by President Donald Trump as potentially “the biggest game changers in the history of medicine” have received a decidedly more sober assessment of their coronavirus-fighting potential from researchers in China, France and Brazil.

Chloroquine and its close relative hydroxychloroquine offered signs that they may ease some of the hallmark symptoms of coronavirus infection in patients who were hospitalized with COVID-19. But the drugs largely failed to deliver improvements on other key measures when evaluated in rigorous research studies.

In research done in France, hydroxychloroquine reduced neither deaths nor admissions to intensive care units among patients who received it. In a study conducted in China and another in Brazil, the two drugs failed to help patients clear the coronavirus faster.

And in Brazil, two deaths and a rash of heart troubles among patients who got a high dose of chloroquine prompted a hasty alteration of the trial there after just 13 days. Concluding that “enough red flags” had been raised, the researchers halted testing of the drug in its extra-strength form.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/malaria-drugs-fail-to-help-coronavirus-patients-in-controlled-studies/ar-BB12O60W

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