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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Yes, and what did her doc rely upon? Anecdata.
Of course we should want the best data sets. No one disagrees. But while we’re building that, if all one has is anecdata, you make the best decision you can.
I don’t know what the aggressive desire to make the perfect the enemy of the best-info-we’ve-got is here. Particularly when the experimental use is creating the data set needed for more comprehensive study.
By the way, if I get it and have difficulty with breath, I’ll now know to go to ER ASAP, and if I’m found to have Covid, I’ll ask for the drugs. I won’t wait and later need a ventilator. And if I fall into the 2% of people who suffer cardiac issues, I’ll have been amazingly unlucky. If I recover by aid of the drug, I’ll have been saved by making a shrewd cost/benefit assessment. If it doesn’t help me, I was probably dead no matter what I did.
Think like a trader, not a lawyer. Works better in this sort of situation.
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The vast, vast majority of people that I have talked to in NY with the teltale symptoms get cold-like symptoms, lose their senses of smell and taste, then get better with nothing. Occasionally some people use OTC drugs, some don't. Only the one was hospitalized with bilateral pneumonia, and was in for a while. She couldn't complete a sentence on the phone with me without coughing.
Should they get tested? Probably but over the past two months no hospital would waste a test on cold symptoms. If you do plan to go to the ER and want to get tested, hype up the symptoms "I walked up the steps and collapsed" or "I got dizzy and passed out." Generic cold symptoms, they will likely say "Assume you have it, isolate for 14 days, call us if you can't breathe."
