Ugh, now we have an MD that doesn't understand the study.
"...found patients given hydroxychloroquine along w zinc sulphate & azithromycin were 44% less likely to die from the coronavirus..."
Less likely THAN WHAT? Not less likely than placebo. Less likely than people given hydroxychloroquine & azithromycin without the zinc. The study is about the impact of adding zinc. How does an MD miss the purpose of a study when it is clear from the title of the actual study?
Misunderstanding of this study is everywhere.
Below are some scenarios that are all possible (I'm not making any claim about which is likely) based on the study:
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HCQ works great. It works even better when combined with zinc. Your title is misleading because it vastly understates how well HCQ works.
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HCQ barely works by itself, but it works well with zinc. Anyone that reads only your title will have no idea how important zinc is and may be mislead into thinking that HCQ by itself is all you need.
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HCQ does nothing, but zinc is great. Your title credits the wrong drug.
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HCQ without zinc is actually worse than a placebo (there was actually a shitty study from China that claimed that), i.e. HCQ is killing people. Zinc, though, is helpful. Your title encourages people to take something that will kill them while making no mention of something that actually works.
I'm not saying the study isn't important -- it is. I'm saying your title is shit, and you may be doing more harm than good because a lot of people read nothing more than the title. We don't need more people regurgitating nonsense all over the place because they read misleading titles. We get enough of that from the mainstream media.
Title (of both the article and the post here) is very misleading. The focus of the study, according to the body of the article, was to see whether adding zinc to hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin gave a better result than using hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin without zinc. The "cut death risk by almost 50%" part is relative to not using zinc, not relative to not using hydroxychloroquine. Why are so many journalists so retarded?
Not really looking at the right metric. They are talking about the number of people hospitalized, which could be falling because people that got hospitalized weeks ago are now getting better and leaving. It would be more meaningful to look at the number of new people entering the hospital now compared to a few weeks ago to see whether lifting the restrictions has made it go up.
Greta complains that we need to listen to her about global warming because the children will be most affected. She will now be telling us what to do about coronavirus, which has virtually zero impact on children (other than killing their grandparents).
To be fair, though, her opinion is probably no more worthless than anyone else on CNN.
That article is from Nov 19. Are you sure that's what Trump Jr was referring to when he said "NOW he admits..."?
Hard to say. If they are prosecuted criminally and he gets busy with a job under Trump, he may let it go. If that's not the case, and he's just sitting around broke with a pile of legal bills, he might have no choice financially. And, of course, he might just do it because he's pissed.
If Flynn sues them, the discovery process would allow him to keep digging.
Sidenote: Murder hornets being in North America is bullshit. NY Times is fake news, as usual.
That would help ensure that nobody gets withing 6 feet of you.
I'm finding it really hard to believe that he would be leaving the hospital today if he was on the verge of death yesterday. Any doctors out there want to weigh in on whether they would really discharge someone that fast?
I was wondering that myself. In the case of light killing a virus that is spread out on a surface, you could imaging that if the virus is killed by a single hit from a high energy photon, and such hits are rare enough, you would get a certain percentage killed with each minute of time passage. On the other hand, if it took being hit by 1000 photos to kill it then you would expect it to all die at roughly the same time. In the case of heat (low energy), you would think it would be more like the latter scenario. If it really doesn't die off geometrically, and they are reporting half lives, we are being led by the blind.
Careful, these numbers are half lives (amount of time for half of it to be gone). If you want it to be really gone (reduced by a factor of 1024), multiply the half life by 10.
It is from the president's press conference on 4/23/2020. previously posted
That's a rather small sample for what they are measuring. The 3.3% is really 2.3% to 4.6% with 95% confidence.
When I do that, @SidneyPowell1 is the top result.
Strzok to Page at 2:20pm on 4-Jan-17: "Yeah, our utter incompetence actually helps us. 20% of the time, I'm guessing :)"
Really not the most convincing picture. If the shocked look was due to what Biden is doing, you would think she would be looking toward Biden or toward his hand.
The key point is to compare to the country's overall infection rate, which is 0.0034, so it cut infections by about 90% (as noted in the tweet the article references).
I keep seeing this stuff about them getting a raise. Is there any actual evidence of that? I know they allocated funding, but it could very well have been to pay hourly staff overtime to work during the crisis. I think any change in pay for congresspeople has to be put into law explicitly, and I've never seen any evidence that that happened. Did I just miss it?
It is a different account -- there is an extra "s" on the end of the name.
The article is here
From the article: "Fox News reached out to CNN and Google for comment. Google has yet to respond."
It was deleted from the Google Play store, so YouTube isn't involved unless there is some relationship between Google Play store and YouTube that I don't know about.
CNN says they had nothing to do with this -- they don't license Larry King Live for distribution on Google Play. If you click on any of the other episodes, you get "This show is currently unavailable." So, Google?
Let's not give all the credit to Cuomo. The governors of NJ and PA did it, too.