Title: “Hydroxychloroquine / azithromycin in COVID-19: The association between time to treatment and case fatality rate” Abstract: “A total of 1265 COVID-19 patients with an average age of 44.5 years were studied…41% with at least one comorbidity…No patient treated within the first 72 h of illness died.” [not a small study and included about 500Continue reading “72 hours. From symptom onset. The antiviral treatment window for covid. There’s a study, overlooked by almost everyone, that shows this.”
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The FDA’s Big Fat Hydroxychloroquine Blunder
The blunder is in this comment from the FDA’s revocation of its EUA for hydroxychloroquine: Hospitalized patients were likely to have greater prospect of benefit (compared to ambulatory patients with mild illness) and could be more closely monitored for potential toxicity, although it was recognized that enrollment in a clinical trial would be the bestContinue reading “The FDA’s Big Fat Hydroxychloroquine Blunder”
Pharma has eliminated most empirical evidence
What is empirical evidence and why has pharma killed it? Empirical evidence is evidence that some people have seen. Like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. Like water being wet. Like parachutes (mostly) working to prevent fatal falls. Like thalidomide causing thalidomide babies. No, there were no studies before thalidomideContinue reading “Pharma has eliminated most empirical evidence”
So you think we should trust the FDA and CDC?
Everyone trusts the FDA and CDC. At least most people do. And why not? Haven’t they given us good advice? I have asked some questions about the advice and decisions of the FDA and CDC that don’t seem to make sense. I forgot to mention that when the FDA recommended against treating outpatients with hydroxychloroquineContinue reading “So you think we should trust the FDA and CDC?”
An educational look at an example of problematic writing about science (edited for clarity)
This article is to be read in tandem with my article about an example of clever writing about science. The author of the problematic writing is Shin Yie Jong and his article is entitled, “No Changes in All-Cause Mortality in Pfizer’s Clinical Trial for mRNA Vaccine: Why?”. Let’s have a look at Jong’s article. First,Continue reading “An educational look at an example of problematic writing about science (edited for clarity)”
The FDA shell game
The FDA is playing a shell game on us. It provides two immunological categories: vaccinated and unvaccinated. A binary choice. But this is a mistake. The immunological categories are as follows: unvaccinated-recovered, unvaccinated-naive, singly vaccinated, vaccinated and in the two-week waiting period, the doubly-vaccinated, and the boosted. Obscuring these categories essentially hides the data. AnContinue reading “The FDA shell game”
FDA document shows no all-cause mortality benefit for Pfizer’s covid vaccine
The document, on page 23, showed that there were 21 deaths in the vaccine arm and 17 deaths in the placebo arm. Each arm had about 22,000 participants. So no mortality benefit and a trend towards harm which isn’t statistically significant. “From Dose 1 through the March 13, 2021 data cutoff date, there were aContinue reading “FDA document shows no all-cause mortality benefit for Pfizer’s covid vaccine”
Pfizer caught falsifying data
“Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial“ Ok, it was actually a subcontractor who did this. Ventavia. Ventavia fired the whistleblower–Jackson–and Pfizer continues its relationship with Ventavia. Ventavia is working with Pfizer on four other trials. The whistleblower reported various problems to the FDA regarding Ventavia’s handling of theContinue reading “Pfizer caught falsifying data”
Navigating the Covid Confusion 