The combination of the two medications seems (if this study can be confirmed) to be somewhat helpful in clearing the viral infection in people who have either no symptoms or only upper respiratory symptoms. Trouble is, most of those people would never have gotten severely ill, much less died, even if they got no treatment at all.
It's not clear what benefit there really is to speeding up viral clearance, beyond allowing people to stop self-isolating a few days earlier. That's a good thing, to be sure, but hardly a huge breakthrough that could significantly change the deadly course of this pandemic. Most of the rushed research/observations on transmission that we've seen so far suggest that asymptomatic people who test positive for the virus have minimal ability to transmit it to other people.
What we urgently need is a way prevent people from dying and/or needing extended periods of intensive care to survive, and it's not clear that this drug combination has any effect at all on meeting that need. This guy running around hollering "100% cure rate" is just being irresponsible. The study he's citing makes no such claims, so we should be asking why he's making them, especially when he knows full well he's communicating to a general audience that will jump to a happy conclusion without checking the facts.
The combination of the two medications seems (if this study can be confirmed) to be somewhat helpful in clearing the viral infection in people who have either no symptoms or only upper respiratory symptoms. Trouble is, most of those people would never have gotten severely ill, much less died, even if they got no treatment at all.
It's not clear what benefit there really is to speeding up viral clearance, beyond allowing people to stop self-isolating a few days earlier. That's a good thing, to be sure, but hardly a huge breakthrough that could significantly change the deadly course of this pandemic. Most of the rushed research/observations on transmission that we've seen so far suggest that asymptomatic people who test positive for the virus have minimal ability to transmit it to other people.
What we urgently need is a way prevent people from dying and/or needing extended periods of intensive care to survive, and it's not clear that this drug combination has any effect at all on meeting that need. This guy running around hollering "100% cure rate" is just being irresponsible. The study he's citing makes no such claims, so we should be asking why he's making them, especially when he knows full well he's communicating to a general audience that will jump to a happy conclusion without checking the facts.
Correct. Why? Because he is a lizard.