D&D and the rising pandemic

[The Green Hermit]

This will surprise nobody familiar with the drugs being tested or who have listened to the experts who were:

Small Chloroquine Study Halted Over Risk of Fatal Heart Complications

A small study in Brazil was halted early for safety reasons after coronavirus patients taking a higher dose of chloroquine developed irregular heart rates that increased their risk of a potentially fatal heart arrhythmia.Chloroquine is closely related to the more widely used drug hydroxychloroquine.

www.yahoo.com

It doesn't surprise me, but it does sadden me that this got rejected so quickly. Even if it wasn't THE fix, I was hoping it might have been a sometimes/right situation fix.

 

[Zardnaar]

Daily government update in my SPPS.

4 more dead, 9 total,6 from same rest home.
17 new cases

Probably peaked/contained.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Looks like IHME has raised their projections for cumulative US covid deaths from 61k to 69k, with the usual big uncertainties and "first wave" qualifier.

 

[ccs]

Of things go well you might have a chance post January.

I'll have a chance post Jan. Both medically & financially.
But it'll be despite the <insert vile expletives here/very stable genius/Republicans/Democrats> in Washington.

 

[ad_hoc]

Looks like IHME has raised their projections for cumulative US covid deaths from 61k to 69k, with the usual big uncertainties and "first wave" qualifier.

It looks like New York is starting to recover so we will probably see a big dip in death rate for a time.

I'm expecting other states like Florida and Texas to have big outbreaks soon though. Things like that executive order in Texas to get people back out are just not going to go well.

 

[Umbran]

There are lots of ways to work around this.

Let us note that, "this," stands for, "the guarantees of what we consider to be fundamental rights."

"There are lots of ways to work around the guarantees of what we consider to be fundamental rights," doesn't sound good to me.

 

[The Green Hermit]

It looks like New York is starting to recover so we will probably see a big dip in death rate for a time.

I'm expecting other states like Florida and Texas to have big outbreaks soon though. Things like that executive order in Texas to get people back out are just not going to go well.

I agree with you. My heart hurts for the people that live there.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It doesn't surprise me, but it does sadden me that this got rejected so quickly. Even if it wasn't THE fix, I was hoping it might have been a sometimes/right situation fix.

The drugs in question had known potential side effects of cardiac arrest and blindness under certain circumstances...from the very first dose.

So absent really substantially positive indicators that it worked for Covid-19, it wasn’t like to get anything more than a emergency approval.

 

[The Green Hermit]

Which is why I am not surprised. I was still hoping that there was a chance of it getting an emergency/dire situations only approval, though.

 

[NotAYakk]

Sweden reported 20 deaths yesterday. I was like "wtfbbq", then checked; monday is a holiday. So Covid-19 took the day off, like it did every weekend for the last month in Sweden.

In related news, USA official death count is 23,640. 1 day away from 25k. I should go back and see how well I pegged it.

Death rate is a tad under heart attacks/cancer now; it peaked as the #1 cause of death in the USA for a few days last week (and was undercounted; dozens to hundreds of people are dying from covid 19 before theynget tested every day).