Post by Aj_June on Aug 1, 2020 5:56:46 GMT
No, I meant that if smoking will ward off corona, then wait six months to quit until there's a vaccine for the virus and it's under control. That seems quite rational if nicotine does indeed inhibit the virus. To quit now thinking it will help your immune system against the virus may be foolish.
I know corona virus or no corona virus, smoking causes cancer and heart disease. I'm no fool. But if I haven't quit by now, 6 more months to ward off corona may be worth it.
Researchers smell a rat, say expensive remdesivir getting ‘subtle push’ over HCQ in studies
Researchers affiliated with a US hospital and a Telangana firm say there might be something fishy about risks associated with remdesivir ‘getting played down’.
New Delhi: A “subtle push” is being given to remdesivir (RDV) as a treatment for Covid-19 while hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is being “snubbed” despite the two drugs showing similar results with respect to coronavirus, a group of researchers has said.
The observations have been made by Dr Sumit Dang of the from University of Kentucky, US, Dr Amit Dang, founder and CEO of the Telangana-based MarksMan Healthcare, and Dr Vallish B.N., senior consultant at MarksMan Healthcare, in an analysis published in the peer-reviewed Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME).
The IJME is India’s only journal on bioethics and medical ethics, and is published by the Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES), a Mumbai-based non-profit. MarksMan Healthcare is a scientific research consultancy and data analytics firm.
According to the researchers, HCQ appears to be courting greater scrutiny with respect to safety and efficacy, and risks associated with the much more expensive remdesivir seem to be getting played down.
The fact that this may be driven by “political affiliation, profiteering, and other conflicts of interest cannot be ruled out at this stage”, they say in an article titled “Hydroxychloroquine and Remdesivir (RDV) in COVID-19: A critical analysis of recent events” and published in the July-September print issue of the quarterly journal.
“Criticism of HCQ has been focused on safety (increased risk of adverse events and arrhythmias), followed by efficacy (lack of clinical or mortality benefit). However, there has been no acknowledgement of the high dose of HCQ given [during trials] when compared to the lower dose recommended by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR),” they write.
“On the other hand, the lack of mortality benefit with RDV is being downplayed, and attempts to highlight a lack of new safety risks, despite observations to the contrary, are repeatedly made. It appears as if HCQ is being more closely scrutinised when compared to the lighter treatment given to RDV,” they add.
The researchers admit that the “widespread (mostly unsupervised) use of HCQ for other indications may have contributed to these unequal levels of scrutiny”, but add that “confounders such as political affiliation, profiteering, and other conflicts of interest cannot be ruled out at this stage, with the available evidence and information”.
Researchers affiliated with a US hospital and a Telangana firm say there might be something fishy about risks associated with remdesivir ‘getting played down’.
New Delhi: A “subtle push” is being given to remdesivir (RDV) as a treatment for Covid-19 while hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is being “snubbed” despite the two drugs showing similar results with respect to coronavirus, a group of researchers has said.
The observations have been made by Dr Sumit Dang of the from University of Kentucky, US, Dr Amit Dang, founder and CEO of the Telangana-based MarksMan Healthcare, and Dr Vallish B.N., senior consultant at MarksMan Healthcare, in an analysis published in the peer-reviewed Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME).
The IJME is India’s only journal on bioethics and medical ethics, and is published by the Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES), a Mumbai-based non-profit. MarksMan Healthcare is a scientific research consultancy and data analytics firm.
According to the researchers, HCQ appears to be courting greater scrutiny with respect to safety and efficacy, and risks associated with the much more expensive remdesivir seem to be getting played down.
The fact that this may be driven by “political affiliation, profiteering, and other conflicts of interest cannot be ruled out at this stage”, they say in an article titled “Hydroxychloroquine and Remdesivir (RDV) in COVID-19: A critical analysis of recent events” and published in the July-September print issue of the quarterly journal.
“Criticism of HCQ has been focused on safety (increased risk of adverse events and arrhythmias), followed by efficacy (lack of clinical or mortality benefit). However, there has been no acknowledgement of the high dose of HCQ given [during trials] when compared to the lower dose recommended by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR),” they write.
“On the other hand, the lack of mortality benefit with RDV is being downplayed, and attempts to highlight a lack of new safety risks, despite observations to the contrary, are repeatedly made. It appears as if HCQ is being more closely scrutinised when compared to the lighter treatment given to RDV,” they add.
The researchers admit that the “widespread (mostly unsupervised) use of HCQ for other indications may have contributed to these unequal levels of scrutiny”, but add that “confounders such as political affiliation, profiteering, and other conflicts of interest cannot be ruled out at this stage, with the available evidence and information”.
theprint.in/health/researchers-smell-a-rat-say-expensive-remdesivir-getting-subtle-push-over-hcq-in-studies/471983/