Happy Independence Day! “We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive!” Bill Pullman, a.k.a President Thomas J. Whitmore Independence Day (1996) — I think this is a better time to reference the movie.
Another retrospective study – but at least this time they looked at the combination proposed for a very long time by many of the proponents HCQ AND ZINC. – sorry no double blinded randomized trial of HCQ and zinc – Maybe someone will go ahead and pay for this study in the name of humanity! – https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202007.0025/v1
“Conclusions: Risk stratification-based treatment of COVID-19 outpatients as early as
possible after symptom onset with the used triple therapy, including the combination of
zinc with low dose hydroxychloroquine, was associated with significantly less
hospitalizations and 5 times less all-cause deaths”
“There were no cardiac side effects.”
“This retrospective case series study analysed data from COVID-19 outpatients with
confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection
in a community in New York State, USA.”
“The author Roland Derwand is/was at the time of writing an employee of Alexion
Pharma Germany GmbH. His engagement and contribution to this study and
publication was private and independent from his employer. The author Martin Scholz
is/was at the time of writing External Senior Advisor for the company LEUKOCARE in
Munich, Germany, and is/was Manging Director at Starts- and -Ups Consulting,
Frankfurt, Germany. Vladmir Zelenko is/was general practitioner in New York State. All
three authors confirm that this article content has no conflict of interest”
Clearly a reporting issue as Brazil showed up with 0 deaths but 42k+ confirmation. US leads death “reporting” at 694 – but big news is the confirmation at 54K.
NY leads death at 73. Confirmation leaders FL, TX, AZ, CA
Most of the latest increases has been focused in the following counties: LA California, Maricopa AZ, Harris County TX, Miami-Dade Fl
There has been continued discussion that death is coming and that these counties represent another NYC. These statements seem to only be made to get clicks and not stated in any facts. I can say at the very least it is different this time compared to NYC. The chart below shows the peak in change of NYC confirmation was very close to the peak of change of death and that as confirmation grew death grew – there wasn’t a big delay. Also NYC numbers as I have noted many times are a complete outlier worldwide. LA is already at confirmation levels seen April 13th for NY – at that time NY deaths total 7349 vs. LA current total deaths at 3457. The testing pool is likely completely different than NYC and LA now. This has been an issue all along with testing/confirmation – it is a function of mechanics and people behavior and not very consistent across jurisdiction.
Colombia and Egypt are probably the new countries to watch as their deaths are steadily rising.
