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Early in the pandemic we had so little insight into what worked and what didn’t work. At the hospital I worked at, everyone... was placed on hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and zinc...among

Great point. Let’s dissect a few things on deaths of those in restraints.First up: “if you can talk, you can breathe”It takes extremely little respiratory effort to talk—and it’s a

My neighbors contracted Covid. Not a huge deal—they were sick, but they recovered without much difficulty. The rest of our development kept their distance and *knock on wood,* that’s been

CDC has 2 strategies for d/c of home isolation/return to work-a test-based strategy, calling for 2 consecutive -PCRs >24h apart,+a non-test-based strategy, which permits return 72h s/p fevers have abated+respiratory

The history of medicine is littered w/meds+interventions that “seemed to make sense,” “might help,” or had promising initial data that ultimately ended up causing real harm.The mark of scientific leadership

PCR false-negative rate is not insignificant Plaquenil data gets less whelming by the dayrapid serology tests may help provide important answers, but come with their own pitfallsnew COVID framework of