My electricity has been out since Tuesday, and due to the utter indifference and incompetence of our electric company, Eversource, I probably won't get it back till next Tuesday. But that's not the crime against humanity. Blogging will have to be light nevertheless, because I can only charge up my devices at my neighbor's house -- who have a generator -- and then I need to ration my computer use.
In any case, in addition to the utter blithering idiocy and downright deliberate mass murder that constitutes the Resident's disastrous failure to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic -- and I don't need to go over that again, we've done it here and several very reputable and careful journalists have documented all of the grotesque details -- there's that hydroxychloroquine insanity.
No, it doesn't work against Covid-19, at any stage from pre-exposure prophylaxis to terminal desperation. It is utterly useless. It is not uncommon for anecdotal evidence to appear to make a treatment seem useful but then well-designed trial find otherwise. Doctors know this and that's what happened here. But the Resident's relentless hyping of this useless remedy, backed up by a barking chorus of his slavish adherent, caused a massive spike in prescriptions. Which killed people. This is USA Today, not the People's Daily.
Now, we can't really enumerate it. The article discusses reports to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s adverse events reporting system, which is what's called a sentinel surveillance system. Doctors aren't required to make reports, and they can't be sure that the adverse events they observe really were caused by the drug. It's intended to raise an alarm that an then be checked out.
But -- the adverse events that were reported are known possible adverse events of the drug, and the spike is consistent with the massive spike in prescriptions that followed the hype by Faux News and it's Dear Leader. Since adverse events do occur at a predictable rate, then a spike in prescriptions would be associated with a predictable spike in adverse events.
Makes sense. And it's murder by stupidity.
2 comments:
Ironic that the biggest mass murders never go to prison. Some may have to pay a fine.
Makes our justice system seem even more arbitrary.
Charles, your comments are appreciated but you don't need to post them all in triplicate.
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