Yeah, in terms of deaths per capita, Belgium and Netherlands are in the bottom 5 in the world (i.e. among the worst 5). You don't hear about those countries though. People are so fixated on absolute volumes.
Not just about population. Both have a high population density for their size. Both also have high life expectance so they have a lot of older people which are the most likely to die of this virus.
Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto’o & Demba Ba have criticized 2 doctors who said on French TV that a possible COVID-19 vaccine be tested in Africa, “where there are no masks, treatment or resuscitation.”“Do not take Africans as human guinea pigs. Africa isn’t your testing lab”-Drogba. pic.twitter.com/PpacIDJ1Ia— Zach Lowy (@ZachLowy) April 3, 2020
This was always going to be our hope of stopping the spread short term while a vaccine is being developed: https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/anti-parasitic-drug-kills-covid-19-in-lab-c-955457
I find news like this kind of problematic because while this is being tested in a lab, a test on a human and a potential medicine being approved are a longer process. False hope for the moment but I agree that the short term solution is rigorous and aggressive testing along with a medicine that works in symptom treatment.
This is less problematic than some of the insane projections we’ve seen plastered all over the media. It’s less problematic than 90% of the shit trending on twitter which is nothing but blue check mark dbags turning this whole thing into political attacks. I’d rather focus on something positive.
UEFA threaten to exclude clubs from Europe next season if they are part of leagues that vote against completing the 2019/20 campaign in its entirety. https://t.co/fMNrgm0ACf— Get French Football News (@GFFN) April 3, 2020
Agreed. Every Dutch person talks shit about how bad it is in the United States, but the per capita stats show that it is way (almost 5x) worse in the Netherlands. This is what I have been telling people all along but they all feed into the media reports which are more than happy to paint other countries as worse than their own. The US is still going to get a lot worse and with its massive population will have significant deaths but I doubt it'll get worse per capita than in the Netherlands which has way higher population density.
It's problematic because it gives people the impression that a solution is near while people in pharma have been banging on and on about how long it takes to get a drug validated. Let's remain realistic here. Also I feel that publicising certain medical specifics gives idiots the impression that all drugs are the same. We've seen that happen with the chloroquine hype, another drug that proved solid in lab tests and people ran out of their house to stock up on random pills containing it before governments put a stop to it. I don't care about politics. I care about selling false hope and this arms race between countries on who will have the quickest solution with plenty of those "quick tests" labs came up with now silently proving unreliable.
Some people being complete f*cking idiots isn’t enough of a reason, for me, to not highlight potential positivity & focus only on doom and gloom. If someone hears something on the news and decides to drink pool or fish tank cleaner because they think it has that drug in it well that person is a f*ckin moron & need to be responsible for their own actions. I’m sorry but placating to the absolute lowest common denominator isn’t the right thing to do.
It's more realistic to expect this to peak in a few months and slowly wear off than to wake up everyday and hope the miracle cure appears. Numerous links have been posted here over the past few weeks about treatments, medicines, and Hopp even saying he'll have a vaccine ready by the end of the year (which would be a miracle).
I mean, have you even read the article? What exactly gives you impression of false hope in that article?
So I decided to install CM 01-02 on my Mac... had to get Parrelles desktop to get windows running so I could install it but I’ll be set reliving this for the next 14 days until the trial runs out lol. So many hours I spent on this game back in the day.
Even if a substance performs well in a lab test, it takes months if not a year or two to get it past regulations, approved, and available as treatment to the consumer. Even then, there are differences between countries as France has for example sanctioned the use of chloroquine in treatment of the virus but Germany doesn't. So at the end of the day if the use of a drug proves to bring good results in a small study in Australia or California, seeing it used in Hospitals or sold over the counter would take at the very least months until all approvals and measures are fulfilled. Publishing successful results in small lab tests creates the impression that treatment is right around the corner.
I'm not talking about a vaccine. I don't really need to read results of small studies to generate hope. I think humanity has survived worse without ignoring the severity of this.
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There is literally nothing in that article that suggest vaccine is around the corner. It even specifies directly: “In times when we’re having a global pandemic and there isn’t an approved treatment, if we had a compound that was already available around the world then that might help people sooner,” Dr Wagstaff said. “Realistically it’s going to be a while before a vaccine is broadly available.” Besides, drug in question is already FDA approved anti-parasitic drug.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/04/03/ema-recommends-remdesivir-for-treatment-of-covid-1.aspx Remdesivir may be light at end of tunnel.
I heard those who get furloughed can double dip (receive unemployment) and keep their jobs (protection for being fired till I think September).
Apparently the small studies published showing the effective use of hydroxychloroquine were all in patients with mild cases . Another study just published from France has shown it to not work or have inconclusive results.
German health officials said hydroxychloroquine has severe enough side effects that you might end up treating the person for something that you might have caused by using it to treat something else. Which is why it isn't validated in treatment of patients.