Sigh. There are some quite scurrilous accusations from the usual right wing middle management types here, in thrall to anything they read in middle management magazines.
The aspirin is hardly a leap. It is well and widely known, and has been for decades, that abnormal blood clotting can be a part of the bodies response to any widespread infection. Taking a bit of aspirin is not really worthy of comment.
I was mainly referring to the Spanish study about hydroxychloroquine, which was so flawed it was impossible to draw any definitive conclusion from.
The data on the remdesivir looks a little more robust, but again, without a double blind placebo controlled trial it is impossible to know.
Neither are a cure. Neither have been proven to save lives.
Lads are suggesting they form part of some sort of magic package which will solve coronavirus.
I would love it if they did, and I could go back to swimming and Gregg’s, but they simply don’t, and you shouldn’t believe anything that isn’t at least in a peer paper, not because it isn’t true, but because it’s as likely to be true as everything you read in the daily express. I am counseling caution, as I have from the start, exactly as I was sceptical of the same lads fervidly quoting the “expert” who said you’d have to stand face to face with a superspreader for precisely 15 minutes to catch it.
However, ye can go back to frotting over the lifestyle section in Mens Health and believe what you like.
As an aside, my wife isn’t in ICU anymore as of this week, as the number of cases hasn’t risen.
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