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13 minutes ago, IUFLA said:
But is that really the argument?
Hydroxychloroquine is an immunomodulatory drug that has been used for 60 years to treat malaria and autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus and inflammatory arthritis. The side effects are known. The people who have conditions where it shouldn't be used are known. It's deemed safe.It should only be prescribed by a physician who is aware of and physical conditions that may make it higher risk.
If the danger of taking it was that prevalent, why is it still FDA approved for the above mentioned conditions?
Couldn't you make the same argument about prescribing whiskey to treat COVID?
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10 minutes ago, 5fouls said:
Very few studies are randomized. Most are trying to prove a particular narrative and will conduct the study in such a way that the narrative is 'proven'. From my perspective, there are too many doctors out there that support the use of HCQ to totally dismiss it. And, quite a few of those doctors are in foreign countries and don't care about the current political landscape in the U.S.
France, which, I believe, is where the HCQ craze originated, has banned its use on COVID patients. As far as I know that's pretty much the medical standard used in any advanced country (all of Europe, Japan, Korea, Canada).
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15 minutes ago, 5fouls said:
- A lot of doctors believe in HCQ and a lot of others do not. What that tells me is that doctors are letting personal experience dictate their view of it's effectiveness. What I would like to know is what percentage believes in it versus what percentage does not. Is it 50/50? Or, is it 80/20 one way or the other. If it's 80/20 either way, that actually tells me something. But printing stories that Dr. Smith touts the drug while Dr. Jones cautions against it tell me nothing more than that particular doctor's belief.
I don't think those sorts of questions that you are ever going to get reliable numbers on, no one polls that sort of thing, but even 80/20 is vastly overestimating how popular it is. Randomized studies show that more people die when taking it than when getting normal treatment. Its use has been widely rejected.
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1 hour ago, Reacher said:
I don't know anything about this Dr. What I see from you, however, is an attack on her credibility. Why don't you argue against her position--whatever that is. Debate the issue, not the person. Maybe she is a lunatic, that doesn't mean she can't have credible information.
Her entire "argument" is her credibility. She is essentially arguing, I have information/knowledge and you should listen to my conclusions, not the millions of doctors that disagree with me. This is not some politician with an idea and an unrelated sex scandal, this is someone arguing she is telling the truth and she should be trusted and everything else is a lie.
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It's like if someone came on here with several posts a day about some random 5 star player secretly commiting to IU. The site can either remove those posts (censor them according to the above definition), or just become a source of pure garbage info. I think we all agree that HSN allowing things to stand, even though some info proves incorrect, is a good thing. But, there is a theoretical point where they have to act. Stella is that spammer of garbage that has to be removed if your site is to have any value.
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Doesn't look good for baseball. Will be interesting to see what they do now. With the bubble, I think the NBA should be able to make it. I don't see how college football can do it though. They'd have to accept that it will run rampant through players - I don't see them letting that happen. We just don't know enough about the long term effects on kids, nor the odds a 300 pound lineman faces. Especially with the continued optimism towards a vaccine, I think the best we can hope for is spring football.
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40 minutes ago, Hoosierdave said:
Was going to post in each persons thread but too lazy haha. Thanks to @The Daily Hoosier for breaking it down for us!
Interesting, how often do they update these things? I'm just wondering if there has been a single game of basketball played between these and the previous iteration.
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18 minutes ago, mookied39 said:
You think he stays 3? Or did you phrase that wrong? No way he stays 3 years.....or am I crazy?
Did we ever get to the bottom of whether or not he will be draft eligible in 2021?
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7 hours ago, Reacher said:
You are comparing apples to oranges. While cases may be rising, hospital bed use was clearly declining. Perhaps the new cases aren't as severe? Perhaps we are catching them earlier? Treating better? I'm not the expert, you can draw your own conclusions. Just pointing out that new cases are not the same as hospital bed use. We wanted to get ahead of the curve and not strain our healthcare resources. It looks like, for the most part, we achieved that.
Doesn't it seem like the most likely explanation is that the number of new infections was steadily decreasing, and thus hospitalizations decreased. Now, cases are starting to go back up, I would think most people don't instantly become hospitalized when testing positive. Seems like they would start to get sick, go get tested, then get worse, then become hospitalized. So, hospital cases would lag confirmed cases.
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13 hours ago, tdhoosier said:
moderna moves into phase 3. And mass production will start. If the vaccine performs well in this trial for 30k people 100 million doses will be available by 2021. If not we’ll have a lot of useless vaccine on our hands. 🤞
Edit/add: I am by no means and antivaxer, but is anybody concerned about the possibility of long term side effects of a vaccine that could potentially be cleared in 6 months. Keeping in mind that many times vaccines are studied for 5 or more years before they are used on the general population? Another thing that concerns me is will there be more pressure to clear the vaccine if 100 million doses were already made? I know we don't have much of an option; just thinking out loud.
I'm by no means an expert on this, but my understanding is that most of what was skipped/sped up was the pre-clinical work (the lab and animal testing that is normally done before the first person gets injected); the time between phase 1, 2 and 3 (normally we would give more time before the next, and larger, round of people is injected); and the lag time to actually produce things at scale once it has been approved. But, what we are not messing with is the phase 3 timeline, where the largest group gets the vaccine and the regular observations - we will still wait the normal time before approving anything for the general population, we will just start making it before we know if we will ever use it.
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23 minutes ago, BGleas said:
I think what Adam Silver really wants is to do is just extend the season to August. So, you'd go from Christmas - August while keeping the schedule the same in terms of spacing the games out, and then that would be the permanent setup going forward. There will be pushback from the players though because they like basically having Summer off.
What's the appeal of a later season? Beyond this next year, I mean.
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11 hours ago, 5fouls said:
Headline on CNN states 'Coronavirus cases SPIKE in DC'!. I looked it up. DC reported 56 new cases today. One month ago, on May 1st, DC reported 335 new cases. It's unbelievable the lengths the press will go to in order to misinform.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/district-of-columbia
DC reports cases based on the day patients report that they first experienced symptoms. So, if there's a spike it wouldn't be recognizable on the chart you linked to. At least not yet.
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I'm not aware of any mock drafts, for either this year or next, that have TJD being picked. My guess is that we get him for 3 years.
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2 hours ago, Seeking6 said:
It's usually a tell when certain media guys start running articles. Not sure with ITH. On paper he seems like a perfect kid for us but the 21 kids even if they seem very, very interested....I don't like to start getting excited about them committing until the summer.
Maybe my memory fails me, but I don't remember them running an article like this mid-season. They also seem to do a good job, though definitely not perfect, of not running announcement primers on guys we miss on.
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Any word on why ITH is running a story on this kid? Is he about to pop?
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Perhaps we're not talking about the same thing. I'm arguing that the YouTube "doctor" videos are without merit and no responsible website would allow them on its platform. If that's not what you were addressing then I misunderstood. I have no problem with doctors experimenting on off label uses of approved drugs. Neither does any US policy. I'm not sure how the EU does things, but I believe it's very similar.