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How about some good news on covid19.......
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-malaria-drug-trump-says-could-treat-covid-19
The US has now completed tests on at least 179,220 people, up 44,035 from yesterday's total.
More and more studies are calling into question the idea that COVID-19 spreads asymptomatically. It appears to be a panic-induced myth. This means social distancing is not effective & the best way to stop the spread is simply to isolate symptomatic.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-...se/have-many-coronavirus-patients-died-italy/According to Prof Walter Ricciardi, scientific adviser to Italy’s minister of health, the country’s mortality rate is far higher due to demographics - the nation has the second oldest population worldwide - and the manner in which hospitals record deaths.
But Prof Ricciardi added that Italy’s death rate may also appear high because of how doctors record fatalities.
“The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus.
“On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity - many had two or three,” he says.
Hospitals have been rushing to stockpile a decades-old antimalarial drug touted by President Donald Trump and others as a treatment for the new coronavirus.
Hydroxychloroquine is being snapped up by medical systems at more than twice the typical pace as U.S. hospitals seek to build large inventories in anticipation of the medication’s potential use in patients with Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus.
From March 1 through March 17, U.S. hospitals bought an average of 16,110 units of hydroxychloroquine, compared with an average 8,800 units a month from January 2019 through February 2020, according to Premier Inc., which helps 4,000 member hospitals buy and manage their supplies.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-malaria-drug-trump-says-could-treat-covid-19
The US has now completed tests on at least 179,220 people, up 44,035 from yesterday's total.
More and more studies are calling into question the idea that COVID-19 spreads asymptomatically. It appears to be a panic-induced myth. This means social distancing is not effective & the best way to stop the spread is simply to isolate symptomatic.