Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial
by jcrubino on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:14PM
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You missed the point.
The most serious cases of COVID-19 affect all the people who have the underlying conditions that have precautions listed using H-Chloroquine.
That makes the normal ICU case of COVID-19 more difficult (time consuming) to manage because now you have to spend time managing / monitoring: The condition, COVID-19, the side effects of H-Chloroquine on vital body systems already impaired, already being attacked by COVID.
Throw the magnitude two out the window like a lucky car crash victim while these patients suffer the crash in the hospital. Not even Bernie was going to pay for the specialty concierge care needed to manage such a patient and yet you some how assume that is how it works.
Except those precautions are at least two orders of magnitude less than the case fatality rate for coronavirus infection.
Equivalently, there are scenarios where a seatbelt can decapitate you or trap you in a drowning car. But you'd still be a fool to drive without one, because buckling is a thousand times more likely to save you than kill you.