Nobel Laureate Data Scientist – ‘It’s leveling off, we’re going to be fine’…

Uh, @BuzzFeed? This guy didn't "self-medicate" with "a drug," let alone the same drug Trump touted. He drank fish tank chemicals because there was a similarly named ingredient. pic.twitter.com/2CfhBNiCia

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) March 24, 2020

I have said it over and over again since the Coronavirus pandemic developed, but it is worth repeating again, the media in this country is a disgusting joke.

Jeff Colyer and Daniel Hinthorn:

“…Hydroxychloroquine is a common generic drug used to treat lupus, arthritis and malaria. The medication, whose brand name is Plaquenil, is relatively safe, with the main side effect being stomach irritation, though it can cause echocardiogram and vision changes. In 2005, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study showed that chloroquine, an analogue, could block a virus from penetrating a cell if administered before exposure. If tissue had already been infected, the drug inhibited the virus.

On March 9 a team of researchers in China published results showing hydroxychloroquine was effective against the 2019 coronavirus in a test tube. The authors suggested a five-day, 12-pill treatment for Covid-19: two 200-milligram tablets twice a day on the first day followed by one tablet twice a day for four more days.

A more recent French study used the drug in combination with azithromycin. Most Americans know azithromycin as the brand name Zithromax Z-Pak, prescribed for upper respiratory infections. The Z-Pak alone doesn’t appear to help fight Covid-19, and the findings of combination treatment are preliminary.

But researchers in France treated a small number of patients with both hydroxychloroquine and a Z-Pak, and 100% of them were cured by day six of treatment. Compare that with 57.1% of patients treated with hydroxychloroquine alone, and 12.5% of patients who received neither.

What’s more, most patients cleared the virus in three to six days rather than the 20 days observed in China. That reduces the time a patient can spread the virus to others. One lesson that should inform the U.S. approach: Use this treatment cocktail early, and don’t wait until a patient is on a ventilator in the intensive-care unit.

A couple of careful studies of hydroxychloroquine are in progress, but the results may take weeks or longer. Infectious-disease experts are already using hydroxychloroquine clinically with some success. With our colleague Dr. Joe Brewer in Kansas City, Mo., we are using hydroxychloroquine in two ways: to treat patients and as prophylaxis to protect health-care workers from infection. . . . As a matter of clinical practice, hydroxychloroquine should be given early to patients who test positive, and perhaps if Covid-19 is presumed—in the case of ill household contacts, for instance…”

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MCCONNELL: "We were this close. But then, the Speaker flew back from San Francisco. Suddenly, the Senate's serious bipartisan process turned into this left-wing episode of supermarket sweep."

Timeline below shows why PELOSI owns this obstruction https://t.co/zzYm9xYynD pic.twitter.com/hxBG2j0frp

— Jeremy Adler (@JeremyAdler) March 23, 2020

New York Imam Finds the Key: Coronavirus Comes from Women Showing Too Much Ankle

This is getting really really bad. This man can’t be President.pic.twitter.com/RmmLZ2SNZz

— CHIZ 🇺🇸 (@CHIZMAGA) March 23, 2020

Dems Worried Stimulus Bill Would Stimulate Economy

Hard to tell?

Iran Refuses U.S. Pandemic Assistance Citing Chinese Conspiracy Theory

Pathetic

I watch and listen to the Fake News, CNN, MSDNC, ABC, NBC, CBS, some of FOX (desperately & foolishly pleading to be politically correct), the @nytimes, & the @washingtonpost, and all I see is hatred of me at any cost. Don’t they understand that they are destroying themselves?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2020

I completely agree with this

In Response to Trump Travel Ban, Florence Launched “Hug a Chinese” Day Initiative in February .

How about you stop eating bats. Seriously. https://t.co/pWcGjWNdpR

— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) March 21, 2020

The media in this country is a disgusting joke

Trump releases massive supply of ‘hydroxy-chloroquine’ for immediate use in New York…

Related:

BREAKING: Gov. Cuomo says New York will start implementing the trial drugs to treat Coronavirus and that they have acquired 70,000 Hydroxychloroquine, 10,000 Zithromax, and 750,000 Chloroquine from the Federal Government.

Trials to start Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/5Zo74wOLUU

— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) March 22, 2020

I disagree with Gov. Cuomo on many policy issues; however, I think he has handled the Coronavirus well. I enjoy his stream-of-thought press conferences. I applaud him for his cooperation with the Trump Administration. I tip my hat to him for a job well done.

The media in this country is a disgusting joke. Worth clicking over for the whole thing.

MATT MARGOLIS:

10. Trump downplayed the mortality rate of the coronavirus

9. Trump lied when he said Google was developing a national coronavirus website

8. Trump ‘dissolved’ the WH pandemic response office

7. Trump ignored early intel briefings on possible pandemic

6. Trump cut funding to the CDC & NIH

5. Trump ‘muzzled’ Dr. Fauci

4. Trump didn’t act quickly and isn’t doing enough

3. Trump told governors they were “on their own”

2. Trump turned down testing kits from WHO

1. Trump called the coronavirus “a hoax”

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Archie was right, Mr. Reiner is a meathead.

Evidence over hysteria — COVID-19

Are we overreacting? Will the overreaction do more harm than good?

I believe we are overreacting.  I believe the overreaction is largely driven by media reporting. Much of the reporting verges on hysterical. This forces the hands of politicians into actions they otherwise may not have taken. I don’t see an easy way out. We just have to weather the virus and the economic impact of personal restrictions. I do believe the economy will bounce back fast when the scare is over.