I’ll interpret the literature, the expert recommendations and the data and make my own decisions on how and what I do for my I patients. There is a reason it’s called evidenced based medicine not expert based medicine. You probably wouldn’t know this but the history of medicine is full of ‘experts’ that made recommendations that were wrong. So let’s let this all play out. I’ll change my practice as the evidence suggests and not enter into that analysis with preconceptions. But you wouldn’t have to worry about that as you’re just a guy with an IP and a lot of time.
"You see that Jupiter-sized orb towering above all those other planets?"
That's HCQ - and it is NOT one of the drugs yet consistently demonstrated to improve outcomes from Covid
https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/06...ization-dominate-the-study-of-covid-19-drugs/
Still, experts say the analysis shows that huge amounts of energy have been expended on haphazard efforts, often without a clear strategy to improve the odds that results would actually inform the care of patients. Faced with intense pressure to develop drugs and vaccines at previously unimaginable speed to push back a global pandemic, researchers may have actually slowed down the rate of progress.
For instance, 237,000 patient volunteers were to be enrolled in studies of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine. That’s 35% of the 685,000 patient volunteers whom researchers hoped would be enrolled in any study. Since patients willing to enter studies are one of the scarcest resources in medicine, this means that other potential treatments, such as ivermectin or favipiravir, were not studied.
That’s “excessive,” said Susan Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She noted that vaccines, in contrast, are being developed in a more methodical way — and wished that research on new drugs had been more organized, rather than simply trying whatever was available.
This is what happens, when you do not coordinate any response from the WH on addressing a pandemic. Huge wastes of resources; huge wastes of time.
“The lack of leadership around a clinical trial agenda in the US is one of the failures of the US’s pandemic response,” said Walid Gellad, director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing at the University of Pittsburgh. “If we had taken the U.K.’s strategy of a set of large pragmatic trials, prioritizing recruitment in those trials, we could have all the answers now that we’re waiting for.”
U.S. researchers rushed quickly into the battle against Covid-19. What was missing, it seems, was a general who could direct them in the fight.
And, no one could take this lead, w/o pissing off Trump if they didn't include HCQ as a main-stager. You hate it when people attack Trump; but this is clearly on him and the folks he has put in charge.
