Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition

[YitzyS]

https://www.dansdeals.com/more/coronavirus/dansdeals-readers-share-like-fly-israel-go-quarantine-hotel/

[Randomex]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/27/coronavirus-cases-us-trump-politics-masks

Those words are super generic... Highlights:
When the vote was called, it divided on largely racial lines. Black members voted for masks,
in order to prevent more families losing six loved ones. White members voted against masks,
to preserve the fundamental right not to attach a cloth to your face.
[Editor's note: Slight editorializing, anyone?]

Residents of Palm Beach, Florida, erupted in anger against a mandatory mask order,
calling it the “devil’s law” and an affront to “God’s breathing system”.

[Randomex]

https://cross-currents.com/2020/06/25/should-black-lives-matter-matter/

Not actually about COVID.

[cmey]

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/coronavirus-cases-versus-fatalities-why-next-6-days-will-be-crucial?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29

[Lurker]

https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-hospital-covid-19-leader-this-surge-has-moved-to-more-of-an-under-50-population

Interesting points:

• The virus hasn't changed, but out behaviors have.
• Hospitalizations are increasing rapidly in TX, and the people being admitted are much younger.

[S209]

https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-hospital-covid-19-leader-this-surge-has-moved-to-more-of-an-under-50-population

Interesting points:

• The virus hasn't changed, but out behaviors have.
• Hospitalizations are increasing rapidly in TX, and the people being admitted are much younger.

Don’t you know that it’s misleading to suggest on DDF that under 50s can be hospitalized too? Shame on you. 🙃

[Lurker]

Don’t you know that it’s misleading to suggest on DDF that under 50s can be hospitalized too? Shame on you. 🙃

That's why I posted 2 articles from both leaders in fake news so everyone will have a good reason to ignore me.

[Yard sale]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/months-into-coronavirus-pandemic-icu-doctors-are-split-on-best-treatment-11593602756?mod=mhp

[moish]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/months-into-coronavirus-pandemic-icu-doctors-are-split-on-best-treatment-11593602756?mod=mhp

https://outline.com/8q5skV

[ExGingi]

https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiI2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lmtpa2FyLmNvLmlsLzM2NjA0Mi5odG1s0gEiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cua2lrYXIuY28uaWwvYW1wLzM2NjA0Mg?hl=he&gl=IL&ceid=IL%3Ahe

[justaregularguy]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/hydroxychloroquine-lowers-covid-19-death-rate-us-study-finds_3410208.html/

and hydroxychloroquine is back

[Lurker]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/hydroxychloroquine-lowers-covid-19-death-rate-us-study-finds_3410208.html/

and hydroxychloroquine is back

I got excited until I actually read up on the study. They didn't give the drug to anyone with cardiac issues. Well, when one half of your study has a hugely significant comorbidity like cardiac issues, and the other half doesn't, maybe it's not the drug that kept the fatality rate low. Maybe it's that they didn't have a friggin cardiac issue.

[Lurker]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/03/us/california-places-of-worship-pandemiic-trnd/index.html

[Yard sale]

I got excited until I actually read up on the study. They didn't give the drug to anyone with cardiac issues. Well, when one half of your study has a hugely significant comorbidity like cardiac issues, and the other half doesn't, maybe it's not the drug that kept the fatality rate low. Maybe it's that they didn't have a friggin cardiac issue.

Doesn’t this mean they accounted for cardiac and other variables. Do you think the study authors would miss something so basic as propensity scoring?
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8/fulltext
“Further, a total of 190 hydroxychloroquine patients exactly matched up with 190 corresponding non-hydroxychloroquine treated patients based on the exact underlying propensity score. Table 3 contains a descriptive summarization of these patients within both the unmatched and propensity matched settings, confirming that the propensity matched groups have identical underlying patient characteristics. The Cox regression result for the two propensity matched groups (Table 4) indicates that treatment with hydroxychloroquine resulted in a mortality hazard ratio decrease of 51% (p = 0.009). The resulting Kaplan-Meier survival curves within the propensity matched setting displayed significantly better survival in the hydroxychloroquine treated group, with the enhanced survival persisting all the way out to 28 days from admission”

[Yard sale]

https://matzav.com/more-covid-19-patients-are-surviving-ventilators-in-the-icu/

[Lurker]

https://matzav.com/more-covid-19-patients-are-surviving-ventilators-in-the-icu/

Greatest reason to keep as many people as possible from getting sick. Look what 3 months of science can do.

[Yard sale]

Greatest reason to keep as many people as possible from getting sick. Look what 3 months of science can do.

Yes. A point in favor of that.

[ExGingi]

Greatest reason to keep as many people as possible from getting sick. Look what 3 months of science can do.

Yup. As long as that was the argument (slow the spread, flatten the curve) it was plausible and garnered compliance. How unfortunate it is that the narrative changed.

[ExGingi]

https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiL2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZW1hcmtlci5jb20vbmV3cy9oZWFsdGgvMS44OTcxNDk50gEzaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlbWFya2VyLmNvbS9hbXAvbmV3cy9oZWFsdGgvMS44OTcxNDk5?hl=he&gl=IL&ceid=IL%3Ahe

Another professional stating that eradicating COVID-19 isn't practical.

[Afrages6]

https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiL2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZW1hcmtlci5jb20vbmV3cy9oZWFsdGgvMS44OTcxNDk50gEzaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlbWFya2VyLmNvbS9hbXAvbmV3cy9oZWFsdGgvMS44OTcxNDk5?hl=he&gl=IL&ceid=IL%3Ahe

Another professional stating that eradicating COVID-19 isn't practical.

We can’t ignore the fact that New Zealand did it