Well, it’s not horse paste, but…

[Bugsy McGurk]

Good news about the effectiveness of an existing medicine in fighting the effects of Covid. Hopefully winger covidiots will stop with the horse paste and consider this medicine….

Antidepressant Fluvoxamine Significantly Reduces Covid-19 Hospitalization

Patients who received the low-cost and widely available drug were far less likely to be hospitalized in a clinical trial.

www.wsj.com

 

[bdtex]

Hopefully winger covidiots will stop with the horse paste

Too late. Once it gets inside the bubble, it never comes out.

 

[JuliefromOhio]

Fluvoxamine is used to treat OCD. I can't find any explanation of what it's supposed to do for Covid patients.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Fluvoxamine is used to treat OCD. I can't find any explanation of what it's supposed to do for Covid patients.

I don’t know - most of the linked story is behind a paywall. But the news is supposedly based on an encouraging clinical trial. We’ll see.

But you can take horse paste if you prefer.

;-)

 

[JuliefromOhio]

I don’t know - most of the linked story is behind a paywall. But the news is supposedly based on an encouraging clinical trial. We’ll see.

But you can take horse paste if you prefer.

;-)

Sure, and wear a flea collar while I'm at. But deworming meds for trumpie/repubs does seem to fit, doesn't it? <smirk>

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Sure, and wear a flea collar while I'm at. But deworming meds for trumpie/repubs does seem to fit, doesn't it? <smirk>

It does fit. Maybe the horse paste kills their worms, so they feel better. It makes them believe it’s helping their Covid.

;-)

 

[EatTheRich]

There have been a number of trials demonstrating likely effectiveness for chloroquine and ivermectin too. Anything suggesting a new intervention is encouraging, but one trial is one trial which can easily have misleading results due to random variation or poor (including confirmation-biased) study design. There is also the question, effective compared to what? To doing nothing? Sure. To using ivermectin instead? Maybe. To best evidence-based practice? Probably not. That’s why a meta-analysis is so much more reliable than an individual study and why the best studies compare one intervention to another and not to no intervention.

 

[JuliefromOhio]

It does fit. Maybe the horse paste kills their worms, so they feel better. It makes them believe it’s helping their Covid.

;-)

They embrace it because some Trump nutcase pushed it.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

They embrace it because some Trump nutcase pushed it.

Darwinism at work.

;-)