I wonder if that is the same malaria drug we were given in the military 25
years ago. They told us we wouldn't be able to donate blood for 10 years
afterward.
we didn't have a choice whether we wanted it or not they just lined up and
shot us full of whatever they thought they needed to keep you healthy.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 4:11 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Chloroquine is the malaria drug. Remsdesiver is a drug known to disrupt
> viral RNA.
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 4/11/2020 1:36 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
> > Remdesivir?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Robert
> > Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 3:26 PM
> > To: af@af.afmug.com
> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: More on COVID
> >
> > I can't believe I am still hearing about "trials" on the pre-existing
> ebola treatment. Doctors are talking about 2/3's of test patients
> recovering after 2-3 days after administration. Seems like that would be a
> good enough "trial" to start massively treating patients instead of 20%
> survival.. What the heck is the real story? I know someone personally
> who fought the FDC to get a treatment that extended their daughters lives
> for 5 years and it was a nightmare. The conspiracy part of me wants to
> scream...
> >
> > On 4/11/20 12:50 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
> >> Yeah, I am starting to get annoyed at the obsession with having enough
> ventilators, describing them as "life saving equipment", leaving the
> impression that most can be saved if you can just put them on a
> ventilator. Yet stats out of NYC are 80% don't survive to come off the
> ventilator. And you have to wonder if the 20% who do, did the vent
> actually save them, or they would have survived even with less aggressive
> treatment.
> >>
> >> The news coverage leaves you thinking most of the ICU patients will be
> saved if there's enough ventilators. When in reality doctors and nurses
> are risking their own lives to treat ICU wards full of intubated, sedated
> patients most of whom will die because they don't have an effective
> treatment. Not a pretty story, probably why nobody wants to talk about it.
> >>
> >> There are trials of various treatments going on, it would be great if
> some of them turned out to work. Not necessarily a cure or a vaccine, but
> a therapy so less people die.
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Bill Prince
> >> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 1:57 PM
> >> To: AFMUG <af@af.afmug.com>
> >> Subject: [AFMUG] OT: More on COVID
> >>
> >>
> >> Saw this in our local paper this morning. It's interesting to me
> because it's bringing to light the fact that COVID-19 is apparently not
> what people are dying from, it's the secondary ARDS-like (Accute
> Respiratory Distress Syndrome) condition. There is also some debate within
> the medical community whether ventilators are helping or hurting. Maybe
> what they need to do is just supply oxygen.
> >>
> >> If this link doesn't work for you, I can email the article.
> >>
> >> https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/11/when-coronavirus-kills-its-like
> >> -death-by-drowning-and-doctors-disagree-on-best-treatment/
> >>
> >>
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