TrumpLyftAlles | 3 points
Elevating Fringe Theories, Ron Johnson Questions Virus Science (US 2020-12-07) NYTimes! Ivermectin only mentioned, not positivelyhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/politics/ron-johnson-coronavirus.html
[-] TrumpLyftAlles | 3 points
Bummer: The NYTimes characterizes ivermectin as fringe. :(
Two others promote the use of ivermectin, a drug often used to fight lice and pinworms, to treat coronavirus patients, despite the National Institutes of Health’s recommendation against its use outside clinical trials.
Unfortunately the NIH isn't following research -- I bet.
“These fringe views run counter to what the Senate should be doing — working on a bipartisan basis to protect the American people and tackle this deadly pandemic,” Mr. Peters said.
He pointedly declined to invite a witness to Tuesday’s hearing, and his aides said he did not plan to engage with the witnesses during the session. Instead, he is working with a group of a dozen prominent health experts to draft a letter to submit for the Congressional Record challenging their views.
This is the letter, signed by 34 MDs. It address HCQ:
The latest attempts to promote hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment are proof of the danger in ignoring evidence and dismissing science. After months of testing beginning in the early days of the pandemic, no evidence has emerged that the drug improves outcomes in infected persons or those at risk for infection and some studies have found it causes more harm than good. Yet patients continue to demand it from their doctors because of false information spread by politicians, advocates, and others peddling it as a cure-all. Indeed, continued advocacy of this or any unproven, even dangerous, approach feeds confusion and skepticism about the scientific process and the entire medical community, to the point that some patients decline effective treatments or vaccines. Such rhetoric can also lead to broader negative consequences, like price-hikes and shortages of the drug for patients who depend on it for its FDA-approved uses.
But not ivermectin.
Yeah, only "short term tested" vaccines are the only solution. (Note: that doesn't mean they are unsafe, it means we have not enough data yet.)
The vaccine industry seems to have more money and power.
[-] MacroTurtleLibido | 3 points
The NYTimes shames itself again.
Frustratingly, they present themselves as enlightened, when they are here (again) denying basic science. What a shitshow they are. A parade of false beliefs no less dangerous or ignorant than any before in history.
Shameful really, when you consider the human cost of this ignorance.
[-] blueheelercd | 1 points
Shameful! It is all about the vaccine. Big problem, most of the states do not have enough money to distribute it! What then? In the meantime people will die. I know one person who did the I-Mask protocol after getting very sick with Covid. Never needed a ventilator. Home doing well. No “long hauler symptoms.” Politicians and reporters should not be in control of our health or what doctors prescribe. We have to get the word out! More countries doing studies now.
[-] my-tech-reddit-acct | 0 points
The commies at NYT diss a cheap effective solution to the pandemic. Here is my shocked face:
Commies? I wish. Try neoliberal dolts
[-] smorgasmic | 1 points
Neoliberal Leninists: bringing you the best in corporate oligopolies (e.g., healthcare) supported by the State, operated by political fanatics who believe their vision of how the world should be is a holy inspiration. Anyone who disagrees with that political religion is an enemy of the State.
In keeping with that idea, Big Pharma is a protected oligopoly, and the State will crush ivermectin in order to protect Big Pharma. The press has become nothing more than a political mouthpiece for the State, so in the example above you have two kids with no medical training at the New York Times who think they have a right to try to crush the suggestions of a team of physicians and researchers who have more than 2000 published papers between them. NIH will take the recommendation to study ivermectin and try to bury it for as long as possible.
Just another disgusting day in the US.
[-] kchoze | 4 points | Dec 09 2020 02:23:16
At one point in time, the theory that a surgeon washing his hands before operating on his patient reduced infections and mortality was a "fringe theory". The guy who tried it first, found it worked and tried to get his colleagues to adopt it was attacked mercilessly by the medical community of his time, so much so it led to his nervous breakdown and his death by being beaten by guards in the mental asylum they shipped him off to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
When I heard Pierre Kory speak, a trained physician who has spent the last months in intensive care units treating COVID patients, has 81 published papers and more than 800 citations of his work, I saw someone in the same position as Ignaz. He is sure he has found something that would help, and the many highly-published experts and physicians part of his organization agree with him, and yet the medical bureaucracy is utterly uninterested in it, and the louder he speaks to get people to listen, the more he's ignored and slandered by the community and the media.
What would YOU do if you found a cure, and medical authorities didn't even want to TRY it, didn't want to provide any funding at all for it, and only responded with insults and slander when you asked? And then you go back to working in an ICU unit, seeing tens of your patients die, convinced that if the cure was used, they wouldn't need to die? I can't imagine how maddening this must be for him. It's maddening for me and I'm not a physician who has to see my patients die.
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[-] wikipedia_text_bot | 1 points | Dec 09 2020 02:23:35
Ignaz Semmelweis
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (German: [ˈɪɡnaːts ˈzɛml̩vaɪs]; Hungarian: Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp; 1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian physician and scientist, now known as an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Described as the "saviour of mothers", Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever (also known as "childbed fever") could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics. Puerperal fever was common in mid-19th-century hospitals and often fatal. Semmelweis proposed the practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions in 1847 while working in Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had three times the mortality of midwives' wards.
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