Great news regarding HydroxyChloroquine developed over the weekend.
France:
and the U.S. FDA:
These
moves are apparently predicated on news from French Dr. Didier Raoult's
most recent test, first reported on three days ago.
Late-breaking news on the H-C front again stronglz suggests that "the powers that be" expect great things from the drug combo.
Now,
I know some say I'm just reporting useless "spin" and these tests
haven't been clinically verified by the FDA and the host of government
agencies (like the CDC) and so on; however, the fact that both France's
government and the FDA has now approved H-C (Hydroxychloroquine)
indicates that the evidence exists for H-C's use.
Two caveats. First, H-C is used successfully in combination with an antibiotic, azithromycin (Z-Pak), and zinc sulfate. It is not just H-C by itself. Secondly,
these high success rates are based on getting the patients medicated
early, not long after they exhibit CoVid-19's symptoms. ("CoVid-19",
"COVID-19", etc., re: spelling.) If one waits too long, success is not
as pronounced, and fatalities can occur. That was the case with Dr.
Raoult, wherein an 86-year-old died, being relatively far gone when the
test began.
Also, significantly, two other aspects of this to keep in mind. Doctors (and nurses who can get it) are using H-C as a prophylactic
to prevent them from developing CoVid-19. You see this in the blogs and
the Comments sections. And also, on Tucker Carlson the other night,
this past week, Carlson was interviewing a NYC doctor who, toward the
end of the interview, mentioned he himself was taking Plaquenil, a brand
name for H-C. Carlson had asked the doc how the doc was avoiding
infection, and Carlson missed the significance of the reference, and
ended the interview. But I caught it, and so did Carlson's producer, who
told Carlson but too late to ask the doc about it.
Obviously,
the medical professionals who are "on the front line" are not messing
around waiting for FDA/CDC approval (which has now been given).
The
other significant point to make is that a good number of clinical or
quasi-clinical tests began last week with H-C, in many quarters, most
particularly NYC, and we'll be hearing a lot about that in the immediate
future. Be on the lookout.
Finally,
Drs Fauci and Birx over the weekend, in TV interviews, made
extraordinary claims about fantastic fatality projections: Fauci saying
we could possibly see 100,000 to 200,000 deaths in the U.S. and Birx
saying COVID-19 would have killed 1.6 to 2 million Americans if the
U.S. government had not established the lockdown and cratered the
economy.
These numbers seem to contradict what both individuals have said very recently, and published (for example, Fauci in the New England Journal of Medicine). Caution is required, because the media is crying up "Disaster! Woe!". Fauci has to be listened to at length, and was
basically saying we are not ready to let up the lockdown (to the extent
one formally exists, the less shocking term being "social distancing")
quite yet, that we need more widespread testing in regions not hit so
hard. (That's because we don't really know how many have actually had
the virus and were not been too adversely affected by it -- we need to
do massive testing with new tests that show whether one has had the
virus of the past few months; such tests are being made available now.)
Clearly, such testing can’t be in regions such as New York and New
Orleans and other cities, currently flooded with the virus. As for
Fauci, in his Sunday interview on CNN, he seems to be doing a lot of
"hemming and hawing" (as the old saying has it) and not saying much
anything definite. Also, important to point out, Facui did say these computer models are based on assumptions and, in his experience, the worst case scenario rarely happens.
However,
it is these models -- such as issued by Neill Ferguson at the Imperial
College, London (now massively reconfigured downward), and by the U.S.
Democrat group "COVID Act Now" were what caused such panic in the first
place.
At American Thinker, Clarice Feldman as a good article here: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/numerators_and_denominators_in_the_coronavirus_saga.html
in which she provides long quotes and links to an even better article
by Daniel Horowitz. Always, remember, there are lies, damned lies, and
statistics. A good article showing how the MSM "spins" these statistics
is here:
Quite fascinating, actually. The
same data can be presented in myriads of ways. And I know some friends
of mine will be quick to say that Drs Raoult and Zelenko can alter their
stats too, but in their case, we will be quickly seeing whether their
info is reliable; certainly, the governments of France and the U.S.
think so.
One
interesting point was made in a comment at the blog Wattsupwiththat
about hurricane predictions. Hurricane prediction models often
mispredict where the hurricane is going, until the storms get closer and
closer to shore, and also, somehow, rates of success of such
predictions are calculated over an 80-year period. Certainly the Global
Warming predictions of 20 years ago (tempus fugit) are all wrong in
general, and most often in detail. It is a commonplace, however, that
you just never see MSM reports on how so far off these predictions often
were. Remember the Global Overpopulation scare of the 1980s? Same with
the COVID-19 predictions.
Horowitz, in the article linked to in the Conservative Review piece linked to here makes an excellent point that it is stastically impossible for COVID-19 to only have arrived here in the West at the end of January. Because of the volume of traffic from China (and less to China) it is certain that it got here in December. A lot fo the people who died in January and February and are listed as having died of the flu (which is a killer), but they could have had COVID-19. No one here was looking for it and assumed it was just a flu death.
We just don't know. But it is possible, therefore, that we are seeking peak virus infections now. Interesting idea. We've no way of knowing. But were it true, it means COVID-19 kills at a low rate indeed, in terms of what has been shouted from the rooftops of the MSM, at least.
Now, I
am NOT denigrating SARS CoVid-19. It is causing havoc in the medical
systems of every country that it gets a hold in. And it got a hold in
Italy (because of Italy's close connections to China) and the U.S. (in
Seattle first, then NYC, from a European-derived strain of the virus)
before anyone really grasped what was going on. That's the fault of
China, and once this mess is cleared up, there will be repercussions,
serious ones.
Also,
COVID-19 is deadly to older folks and people with pre-existing
conditions like myself (COPD in my case), and it can kill younger
people: https://www.france24.com/en/20200327-she-just-had-a-cough-teen-s-covid-19-death-shakes-france
But
there also has to be a balance between protecting (and curing) people
and crashing Western Civilization. That cannot be our two options. Right
now, we seem to be cutting off our nose to spite our face, or as one
internet wag put it, committing suicide because we fear dying.
Most
important point to make: Everything these days is political, even the
weather! (I.e., Global Warming.) Marriage is political ("same-sex"
marriage) and even the nature of the sexes, being male and female, is
political. It's all insane. https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-general-barr-weighs-into-trans-suit-no-biological-boys-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-compete-against-girls
There's nothing not
soaked in politics. Why has the MainStream Media (MSM) be so opposed to
Hydroxychloroquine, for example? Because Trump is for it. This
"politicking" the coronavirus is ubiquitous. Now Nancy Pelosi is
suggesting Trump should be impeached for his handling of the virus
breakout!
Therefore,
one must be extremely skeptical of a great portion of the news about
the virus. I suspect H-C might be a civilizational life-saver, but I
don't know that, and anxiously await news this week of how the current
tests turn out. But the governments of France and the U.S., their
announcements reported over the weekend, seem to strongly indicate H-C
does work as advertised.
RBC
