I've been hoping every day for some word on how the 70,000 doses of chloroquine and azithromycin were working out in New York, because I'd read that they were delivered on Tuesday, March 24, and Gov. Cuomo said he was eager to get trials started. I was even getting worried that the lack of good news might mean the drugs weren't having any effect after all.
Turns out they haven't started using them yet. They're still
working out how the trials will be structured, and hope to get started next week.
Make sure the Deep State doesn't adulterate those doses with Corona or vaccines + formaldehyde.
ReplyDeleteCounter: Get out of here with that paranoia.
Y: If the world adopted my mentality, they would become sane.. for once and stop panicking.
Designing a protocol isn't trivial, but I'm surprised it would take this long. Maybe it's a function of all the different players involved--even if the lawyers and "ethicists" pres-signed off, you'd still have the problem of defining who collects what information, and sends it where. It'd have been nice to work some of this out in "pandemic exercises" before, but preparation generally gets pushed down the queue.
ReplyDeleteThere's some (OK, a lot) of that political stuff, but there's also a need to locate patients at varying stages of their Wuhan Virus progress so the several combinations and dose levels of the drugs can be assigned.
ReplyDeleteAnd there's a need to train the doctors and nurses involved so their at least partly subjective reads of patient responses can be normalized. And patient descriptions of their own responses will be wildly variable both across and within patients.
Eric Hines
As for CDC and WHO, for those that thought Ymar was going off the deep end (again) with his half baked or fully baked conspiracies, look up what people are online tweeting about the WHO and China vs Taiwan.
ReplyDeleteAs I noted here before, the WHO and CDC have orders they must obey. Although the authorities giving those orders are not who people here or in the West, think it was 4 weeks ago.
E Hines--yes, that's what I was referring to. How do you define a new classification scheme that dovetails with what each hospital or doctor has been using, and shoehorn in the extra steps for communicating the info. It isn't completely trivial even to create a Continuity Of Operations Plan (COOP) for a single organization with the main players in the same room.
ReplyDeleteStill, I'd have expected things to move a little faster, with a phased-in plan.
I'm sorry to have to suspect foot-dragging and box-checking.
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