Around 500 covid confirmed cases. None were severe/in the hospital. He treated older patients with any symptoms, however mild. He treated all patients with shortness of breath. He did not treat young patients with mild symptoms (why did he get the covid test for these patients to begin with?)
He is sure that 350 local patients were not admitted to his local hospital. He has not heard of anything bad happening to the 150 patients that do not live in his local area.
My questions are:
Did he call each patient to confirm if they were feeling better?
When did he start prescribing these drugs? Of the 500 patients, how many received prescriptions in the past 2 days (too soon to tell if they will be able to avoid hospitalization?)
What percentage were older 60+ patients with underlying medical conditions and how many were healthy young people?
Where did the "breathing restored within 4 hours" claim come from? How many patients stated that this was the case?
regarding testing young people. It's important to know if you have the virus even if it will be mild so you can take appropriate measures not to spread it to others.
Yes, but how many young, healthy patients with mild symptoms do you have to test in order to have that one positive case? Is it worth it to use 100 tests to get 1 positive result? 1000 to 1?
If this NY doctor is only using 2 tests to get 1 positive result, then it is absolutely worth it. I still don't see how he is getting a 65% hit rate when the national average hit rate is around 1-10%.
Dr Vladimir Zelenko
Letter here: https://twitter.com/RossFairchild/status/1242475318939734016
Thanks.
Around 500 covid confirmed cases. None were severe/in the hospital. He treated older patients with any symptoms, however mild. He treated all patients with shortness of breath. He did not treat young patients with mild symptoms (why did he get the covid test for these patients to begin with?)
He is sure that 350 local patients were not admitted to his local hospital. He has not heard of anything bad happening to the 150 patients that do not live in his local area.
My questions are:
Did he call each patient to confirm if they were feeling better?
When did he start prescribing these drugs? Of the 500 patients, how many received prescriptions in the past 2 days (too soon to tell if they will be able to avoid hospitalization?)
What percentage were older 60+ patients with underlying medical conditions and how many were healthy young people?
Where did the "breathing restored within 4 hours" claim come from? How many patients stated that this was the case?
regarding testing young people. It's important to know if you have the virus even if it will be mild so you can take appropriate measures not to spread it to others.
Yes, but how many young, healthy patients with mild symptoms do you have to test in order to have that one positive case? Is it worth it to use 100 tests to get 1 positive result? 1000 to 1?
If this NY doctor is only using 2 tests to get 1 positive result, then it is absolutely worth it. I still don't see how he is getting a 65% hit rate when the national average hit rate is around 1-10%.
I don't know. Maybe he's doing some effective pre-screening before deciding who to test?