Surgisphere’s sparse online presence—the website doesn’t list any of its partner hospitals by name or identify its scientific advisory board, for example—have prompted intense skepticism. Physician and entrepreneur James Todaro of the investment fund Blocktown Capital wondered in a blog post why Surgisphere's enormous database doesn’t appear to have been used in peer-reviewed research studies until May. Another post, from data scientist Peter Ellis of the management consulting firm Nous Group, questioned how LinkedIn could list only five Surgisphere employees—all but Desai apparently lacking a scientific or medical background—if the company really provides software to hundreds of hospitals to coordinate the collection of sensitive data from electronic health records. (This morning, the number of employees on LinkedIn had dropped to three.) And Chaccour wonders how such a tiny company was able to reach data-sharing agreements with hundreds of hospitals around the world that use many different languages and data recording systems, while adhering to the rules of 46 different countries on research ethics and data protection.
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It's not just the Lancet study made of fail. Britain's NHS decided to join the failathon bandwagon with even more odd and out of place medical practices during their study.
I've talked about the woman who fed her husband fish tank cleaner and got lauded by the media multiple times in the other thread (and if you're not familiar with those details it's worth looking at) but now we have the report of just how much of the stuff she fed him:
This was a murder. There should be no doubt about it at this point.
My father has a saying - 'People will tell you what they will do to you by what they warn you other people will always do to you.'By the way, did you know that Remdesivir is like $4500 a course?
My father has a saying - 'People will tell you what they will do to you by what they warn you other people will always do to you.'
They claimed Trump was pushing HCQ because he would make money - they are actually trying to discredit it to sell more of their high-priced drug!
Cyril Ramaphosa said:In the midst of this life-destroying pandemic, we are greatly encouraged by news this week of a breakthrough in the treatment of COVID-19.
A study by the University of Oxford in Britain found that the drug dexamethasone – which is also manufactured here in South Africa by one of our pharmaceutical companies and of which there is an ample supply – reduced deaths among patients on ventilation by a third.
The Department of Health and the Ministerial Advisory Committee has recommended that dexamethasone can be considered for use on patients on ventilators and on oxygen supply.
We believe that this will improve our management of the disease among those who are most severely affected.
Indian Express said:HCQ is obviously not a panacea for severe cases of Covid-19. Given early, it helps reduce mortality by about half, compared to those not given HCQ. In India the drug is widely available and not expensive. A number of Indian states have already incorporated a short course of HCQ in their Covid-19 treatment protocol, and states that have not done so will do well to implement this quickly.
Methinks Twitter just signed their own 'utility nationalization decree' as this crosses Trump and his family directly.
After months of being under lockdown it really riles me up that we had treatments for wu-flu (good ones going by the studies that haven't been hidden or are bunk) but they aren't getting used because Trump said they could be useful. And certain people can't admit that Trump can be right.Damn, this lady on fire. She cut right to the heart of the issue, Big Pharma can't make money of a generic cure that is cheap and widely available.
People in the tropics take HCQ as prophylaxis against malaria there already, and seem to be having lower infection rates.