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Re:Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, ... by cscurmudgeon on Friday October 16, 2020 @05:10PM (#24805094)
Remember, the WHO recommends traditional Chinese medicine.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01726-1

Edit: downvoted for stating facts and linking to a Nature article? I guess HN has a soft spot for peddlers of pseudoscience and rhino boner pills as long as it their side politically.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06782-7

This is where I draw the line.

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Re:Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, ... by triceratops on Friday October 16, 2020 @05:49PM (#24805394)
That's not what the article you linked says. It says the WHO includes the names of various ailments and diseases under traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in its International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD). That's the not the same as recommending the use of TCM.
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Re:Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, ... by cscurmudgeon on Friday October 16, 2020 @05:56PM (#24805433)
False. It says right in the article that they also include treatments and medicines. Does it do that for Ayurveda and other traditional treatments? Why not? I guess Nature is worried for an irrational reason?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06782-7

Please don’t twist yourself batting for this nonsense.

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Re:Covid: Remdesivir 'has little or no effect' on survival, ... by triceratops on Friday October 16, 2020 @06:21PM (#24805592)
> It says right in the article that they also include treatments and medicines

Can you please paste the relevant quote from the article? Because I'm not seeing that. The part I looked at was:

"In a statement on 4 April, it insisted that the TCM chapter does not discuss particular remedies. Rather, it is meant to give doctors the chance to diagnose patients using both TCM and Western medicine — what it calls “optional dual coding”. These categories “do not refer to — or endorse — any form of treatment”, the statement says."

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