Jumping on certain politicised treatments which looked initially promising, which have never at any time had good RCT evidence, and where the RCT evidence so far is negative, is counterfactual. Publicising the people who for political or other reasons are 100% convinced these treatments work, on the basis of personal experience (unreliable because of 2,3,4,5), without strong caveats
, is unbalanced. You have consistently been doing this.
THH as ever makes a twisted narrative ..with rhetoric...
"jumping on" ?... so the publlcation of these articles on this thread is "jumping on"!!!!!
I guess this publication constitutes jumping bias unless done without Dr THH "caveats" whatever they may be..
Do LF readers really need Dr THH " caveats or "" Dr THH counterfactual" rhetoric to judge for themselves.?? "Batty as it sounds"
So Dr Fareed 's evidence is to be dismissed by Dr THH because it is not RCT
and it is for "political or other reasons",,
What other reason would Dr Fareed have for publicizing except to save patient lives?
and what other reason for saying that "by far the best tool " versus "remdesivir, dexamethasone, convalescent plasma replacement, etc."
except his experience with patient treatment recovery?
So at the risk of being accused of bias and jumping on I will do a triple jump and publicise this on LF again.
of course Dr Fareed may have slightly more knowledge than' balanced' Dr THH
but for the naive and unschooled reader . I defer to the learned Dr THH
Caveat ".this is not an RCT and Dr Fareed is 100% convinced by "political or other reasons"
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And neither is Dr Fareed from California going to back down.
"Local doctor pushing proven treatment of COVID into national debate" https://www.thedesertreview.co…ea-8943-4f707d6ebc1a.html
"My name is Dr. George Fareed. I am a physician in Imperial County, California,
that has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
I take care of patients on both an outpatient and inpatient basis, as well as nursing home patients
, the most vulnerable among us.
In this letter, I am proposing a medical strategy that can help us not only through this current crisis
, but also that will enable us to approach outbreaks of COVID-19 that may occur in the future.
In my attempts to keep people alive, I have had an opportunity to use many different types of treatments
— remdesivir, dexamethasone, convalescent plasma replacement, etc.
Yet, by far the best tool beyond supportive care with oxygen
has been the combination of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), with either azithromycin or doxycycline, and zinc.
This "HCQ cocktail" (that costs less than $100) has enabled me to prevent patients from being admitted to the hospital
, as well as help those patients that are hospitalized.
The key is giving the HCQ cocktail early, within the first five days of the disease.
Not only have I seen outstanding results with this approach, I have not seen any patient exhibit serious side-effects.
To be clear — this drug has been used as an anti-malarial and to treat systemic lupus erythematosus as well as rheumatoid arthritis,
and has over a 50-year track record for safety.
It is shocking that it only now is being characterized as a dangerous drug
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) Dr Nass.