Replies to post #229764 on Biotech Values

[bladerunner1717]

Great find Dewophile. I hope Vin and Clark read it. Let me quote a portion:

Despite its small sample size our survey shows that hydroxychloroquine treatment is significantly associated with viral load reduction/disappearance in COVID-19 patients and its effect is reinforced by azithromycin.

Bladerunner

[bladerunner1717]

According to this paper azithromycin May have direct antiviral properties and synergy with HCQ (I.e. not just for secondary bacterial infection)

Dewophile,

That is a hugely important point that you're making. One of my doctors, a pulmonologist and the head of pulmonology at St. Johns Hospital here in Santa Monica, has argued for years that some antibiotics have a DIRECT anti-viral effect. Another doctor that I know says that if he had antibiotics in 1918, he could have saved 60 million lives. My primary care physician also subscribes to this viewpoint.

Bladerunner

[iwfal]

Interesting twitter thread about the last author (ie probably PI) of the controversial/influential French study of HCQ in COVID19.

At the very least some of it looks very sloppy (hard to see how it could be by accident), but the thread also gets carried away w animus, which detracts from the pure science ethics topic. Nonetheless, I suspect we’ll see more in the next few days or weeks since that’s often how this goes.

https://twitter.com/schneiderleonid/status/1242889208651448322?s=21

Note that some of the papers are one in which we was a co-author. But the one at the top of the thread, with the most examples, is one for which he was last author.