PRESIDENT TRUMP & FIRST LADY Tests Positive For Coronavirus. Also: HopeHicks kellyanneConway KayleighMcEnany #RoseGardenMassacre

[Nzinga]

why is this good?
They have been giving the bullshit to patients for about 4 months, with the White House hoarding and dispensation it
at its whim.

WHO study finds remdesivir didn't help COVID-19 patients

A large study led by the World Health Organization suggests that the antiviral drug remdesivir did not help hospitalized COVID-19 patients

www.boston25news.com

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WHO study finds remdesivir didn't help COVID-19 patients


A bottle containing the drug Remdesivir is shown by a health worker at the Institute of Infectology of Kenezy Gyula Teaching Hospital of the University of Debrecen in Debrecen, Hungary, Thursday Oct. 15, 2020. The drug developed by the Budapest based Chemical Works of Gedeon Richter Plc., is administered to novel coronavirus patients in serious condition as a clinical test to stop the replication of the virus. (Zsolt Czegledi/MTI via AP) (Zsolt Czegledi)

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By JAMEY KEATEN and MARILYNN MARCHIONE
Updated: October 16, 2020 - 11:46 AM
GENEVA — (AP) — A large study led by the World Health Organization suggests that the antiviral drug remdesivir did not help hospitalized COVID-19 patients, in contrast to an earlier study that made the medicine a standard of care in the United States and many other countries.
The results announced Friday do not negate the previous ones, and the WHO study was not as rigorous as the earlier one led by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. But they add to concerns about how much value the pricey drug gives because none of the studies have found it can improve survival.
The drug has not been approved for COVID-19 in the U.S., but it was authorized for emergency use after the previous study found it shortened recovery time by five days on average. It's approved for use against COVID-19 in the United Kingdom and Europe, and is among the treatments U.S. President Donald Trump received when he was infected earlier this month.
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The WHO study involved more than 11,000 patients in 30 countries. About 2,750 were randomly assigned to get remdesivir. The rest got either the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, the immune-system booster interferon, the antiviral combo lopinavir-ritonavir, or just usual care. The other drugs have largely been ruled out for COVID-19 by previous studies, but not remdesivir.
Death rates after 28 days, the need for breathing machines and time in the hospital were relatively similar for those given remdesivir versus usual care.
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The results have not been published in a journal or reviewed by independent scientists, but were posted on a site researchers use to share results quickly.
“The big story is the finding that remdesivir produces no meaningful impact on survival,” Martin Landray, an Oxford University professor who led other coronavirus treatment research, said in a statement.
“This is a drug that has to be given by intravenous infusion for five to 10 days,” and costs about $2,550 per treatment course, he said. “COVID affects millions of people and their families around the world. We need scalable, affordable and equitable treatments.”
Dr. Margaret Harris, a WHO spokeswoman, attributed the difference in the conclusions of the two studies to the fact WHO's was larger.
“It’s just a much higher-powered study,” she said. “It’s quadruple the number of people in all the other studies."
However, Dr. Andre Kalil, a University of Nebraska infectious disease specialist who helped lead the U.S. remdesivir study, said the WHO one was poorly designed, which makes its conclusions less reliable. Patients and doctors knew what treatment they were using, there was no placebo infusion to help avoid biased reporting of risks or benefits, there was little information about the severity of patients' symptoms when treatments began and a lot of missing data, he said.
“Poor quality study design cannot be fixed by a large sample size, no matter how large it is,” Kalil wrote in an email.
Furthermore, the WHO study tested 10 days of remdesivir, so some patients may have been hospitalized longer than they needed to be just to finish treatment, making their length of stay look bad in comparison to others getting usual care.
Remdesivir’s maker, Gilead Sciences, said in a statement that the results are inconsistent with more rigorous studies and have not been fully reviewed or published.
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Marchione reported from Milwaukee.
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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This story has been corrected to remove an erroneous reference to remdesivir being a repurposed malaria drug.

 

[praetor]

why is this good?
They have been giving the bullshit to patients for about 4 months, with the White House hoarding and dispensation it
at its whim.

WHO study finds remdesivir didn't help COVID-19 patients

A large study led by the World Health Organization suggests that the antiviral drug remdesivir did not help hospitalized COVID-19 patients

www.boston25news.com

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
WHO study finds remdesivir didn't help COVID-19 patients


A bottle containing the drug Remdesivir is shown by a health worker at the Institute of Infectology of Kenezy Gyula Teaching Hospital of the University of Debrecen in Debrecen, Hungary, Thursday Oct. 15, 2020. The drug developed by the Budapest based Chemical Works of Gedeon Richter Plc., is administered to novel coronavirus patients in serious condition as a clinical test to stop the replication of the virus. (Zsolt Czegledi/MTI via AP) (Zsolt Czegledi)

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By JAMEY KEATEN and MARILYNN MARCHIONE
Updated: October 16, 2020 - 11:46 AM
GENEVA — (AP) — A large study led by the World Health Organization suggests that the antiviral drug remdesivir did not help hospitalized COVID-19 patients, in contrast to an earlier study that made the medicine a standard of care in the United States and many other countries.
The results announced Friday do not negate the previous ones, and the WHO study was not as rigorous as the earlier one led by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. But they add to concerns about how much value the pricey drug gives because none of the studies have found it can improve survival.
The drug has not been approved for COVID-19 in the U.S., but it was authorized for emergency use after the previous study found it shortened recovery time by five days on average. It's approved for use against COVID-19 in the United Kingdom and Europe, and is among the treatments U.S. President Donald Trump received when he was infected earlier this month.
Content Continues Below

The WHO study involved more than 11,000 patients in 30 countries. About 2,750 were randomly assigned to get remdesivir. The rest got either the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, the immune-system booster interferon, the antiviral combo lopinavir-ritonavir, or just usual care. The other drugs have largely been ruled out for COVID-19 by previous studies, but not remdesivir.
Death rates after 28 days, the need for breathing machines and time in the hospital were relatively similar for those given remdesivir versus usual care.
SPONSORED CONTENT
Convert patients in a pandemic
By Doximity
The results have not been published in a journal or reviewed by independent scientists, but were posted on a site researchers use to share results quickly.
“The big story is the finding that remdesivir produces no meaningful impact on survival,” Martin Landray, an Oxford University professor who led other coronavirus treatment research, said in a statement.
“This is a drug that has to be given by intravenous infusion for five to 10 days,” and costs about $2,550 per treatment course, he said. “COVID affects millions of people and their families around the world. We need scalable, affordable and equitable treatments.”
Dr. Margaret Harris, a WHO spokeswoman, attributed the difference in the conclusions of the two studies to the fact WHO's was larger.
“It’s just a much higher-powered study,” she said. “It’s quadruple the number of people in all the other studies."
However, Dr. Andre Kalil, a University of Nebraska infectious disease specialist who helped lead the U.S. remdesivir study, said the WHO one was poorly designed, which makes its conclusions less reliable. Patients and doctors knew what treatment they were using, there was no placebo infusion to help avoid biased reporting of risks or benefits, there was little information about the severity of patients' symptoms when treatments began and a lot of missing data, he said.
“Poor quality study design cannot be fixed by a large sample size, no matter how large it is,” Kalil wrote in an email.
Furthermore, the WHO study tested 10 days of remdesivir, so some patients may have been hospitalized longer than they needed to be just to finish treatment, making their length of stay look bad in comparison to others getting usual care.
Remdesivir’s maker, Gilead Sciences, said in a statement that the results are inconsistent with more rigorous studies and have not been fully reviewed or published.
___
Marchione reported from Milwaukee.
___
The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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This story has been corrected to remove an erroneous reference to remdesivir being a repurposed malaria drug.

It was purely political just so Trump can claim that we have an effective treatment prior to the election. Even though it's not been proven effective.

 

[Nzinga]

It was purely political just so Trump can claim that we have an effective treatment prior to the election. Even though it's not been proven effective.

yep

 

[T_Holmes]

I just saw the article about this pop up on my phone
LOL at someone guessing Trumps twitter password

And the thing is, most people use the same password for multiple websites & multiple programs
If I was a grimy dude...I would've sold that password info to the highest bidder
Then sit back & watch them hack into Trumps other sites/accounts

But it's so much worse than just guessing. The guy that did it is the same one who successfully guessed it four years ago. He also suggested a list of alternate passwords then, probably more as a joke than anything else. But guess what the password he just guessed was? One of the names on the list.

So either Trump and co. actually used a password from a list they were given, or their mindsets are so basic as to change it to something that simple again. But it's kinda unsettling that something that potentially important could have been that loosely handled. Not surprising, but unsettling.

 

[praetor]

 

[donwuan]

Will? Yeah, will. She bodied him.

 

[praetor]

 

[gdatruth]

​

 

[playahaitian]

​

 

[Thrill3Seeker]

​

She snatched her hand away from that fool.

(Fuck her Count Dracula talkin ass too)

 

[playahaitian]

Film Club: ‘Why Voting in This U.S. Election Will Not Be Equal’

Why is it harder for some people to vote than for others?

www.nytimes.com

​

 

[ghoststrike]

Raw Kristen Walker

Indeed

 

[tical]

Here me out fam...

Random thoughts here...

I think 2016 and the urgency of this election has taught a lot of people to ignore what the polls say and just go out and vote.

I'm afraid there are mechanism in place to crutail the results no matter how many people show up to vote.

Trump is far too calm for someone that the polls says should lose this election badly and very realistically can go do jail and have his properties and accounts seized

Something is afoot and guaranteed to help Trump and Co retain their titles..

Something feels very off with this election..

 

[rude_dog]

Here me out fam...

Random thoughts here...

I think 2016 and the urgency of this election has taugh a lot of people to ignore what the polls say and just go out and vote.

I'm afraid there are mechanism in place to crutail the results no matter how many people show up to vote.

Trump is far to calm for someone that the polls says should lose this election badly and very realistically can go do jail and have his properties and accounts seized

Something is afoot and guaranteed to help Trump and Co retain their titles..

Something feels very off with this election..

I’m sure Trump was just as calm before each of his bankruptcy‘s. Trump has no grand plans, he just reacts.

 

[Nzinga]

America hits highest daily number of coronavirus cases since pandemic began
William Wan, Jacqueline Dupree 9 hrs ago

America hits highest daily number of coronavirus cases since pandemic began


America on Friday hit its highest daily number of coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, recording at least 82,600 new infections and surpassing the previous record set during the summertime surge of cases across the Sun Belt.
© Bing Guan/Reuters A nursing assistant staffs a drive-through coronavirus testing site in Milwaukee, which has been overwhelmed by cases. (Bing Guan/Reuters)
The rising numbers put the nation on the precipice of what could be its worst stretch to date in the pandemic with some hospitals in the West and Midwest already overwhelmed and death counts beginning to rise.


The current surge is considerably more widespread than the waves from last summer and spring. The unprecedented geographic spread of the current surge makes it more dangerous, with experts warning it could lead to dire shortages of medical staff and supplies. Already, hospitals are reporting shortfalls of basic drugs needed to treat covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

And it’s not simply a matter of increased testing identifying more cases. Covid-19 hospitalizations increased in 38 states over the past week. The number of deaths nationally has crested above 1,000 in recent days.
The last time the country hit a new daily record for coronavirus cases — 76,533 on July 17 — just four states accounted for more than 40,000 of those cases: Arizona, California, Florida and Texas, according to a Washington Post analysis.
On Friday, 11 states accounted for that same lion’s share of cases. And in the past two weeks, 24 states have broken their records for single-day highs of cases.
More than 170 counties across 36 states were designated rapidly rising hotspots, according to an internal federal report produced Thursday for officials at the Department of Health and Human Services and obtained by The Post.
“One key way we got through previous waves was by moving health-care workers around. That’s just not possible when the virus is surging everywhere,” said Eleanor J. Murray, an epidemiologist at Boston University.
Equally alarming, Murray said, is that no one knows how high this wave will grow before peaking.
“We are starting this wave much higher than either of the previous waves,” she said. “And it will simply keep going up until people and officials decide to do something about it.”
© Bing Guan/Reuters Bars were in full swing this month in Wisconsin despite a surge in coronavirus cases. (Bing Guan/Reuters)
More than 8.3 million Americans so far have been infected with the coronavirus, and at least 222,000 have died, according to a database maintained by The Post.
The high case numbers of recent days have stoked concerns because the country has not even hit the stretch of holidays and cold weather, which experts have long warned will send cases soaring even higher. More interactions could mean more transmission during celebrations of Halloween, Christmas and the New Year. The winter’s cold, dry air will also help the virus stay stable longer, even as it drives people to hunker down together indoors.
On Thursday, Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot (D) announced new restrictions on businesses. Hours later, White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx warned that closing public spaces may not be enough.
“It won’t be as simple as closing public spaces,” Birx said, pointing to increased gatherings in people’s homes. “What has happened in the last three to four weeks is that people have moved their social gatherings indoors.”
In some areas of Wisconsin, 90 percent of hospital intensive care unit beds are full, the office of Gov. Tony Evers (D) said. The first patient was admitted Wednesday to a makeshift field hospital erected at a state fairgrounds.
Hospitals from Missouri to Idaho are starting to reach capacity. On Thursday and Friday, America had more than 40,000 current covid-19 hospitalizations — the first time that level has been reached since August. In the past three weeks, 37 states saw sizable increases in hospitalizations, and the number has more than doubled in Connecticut, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming.
In Utah, leaders are trying to open a field hospital at an exposition center. State epidemiologist Angela Dunn warned that the health-care system is at capacity, hospital staff are exhausted, and Utahans are getting scared.
“You know, I just, I don’t know what to do anymore,” Dunn said at a Thursday news conference, pleading for residents to be more cautious. “I’m really not trying to scare anyone. I’m just trying to inform you of what’s going on.”

 

[kidmegaii]

Sigh.... Wear a mask socially distance

 

[D24OHA]

I just saw the article about this pop up on my phone
LOL at someone guessing Trumps twitter password

And the thing is, most people use the same password for multiple websites & multiple programs
If I was a grimy dude...I would've sold that password info to the highest bidder
Then sit back & watch them hack into Trumps other sites/accounts

The secret service tried to get this fool to switch to a more secure phone / SM security protocol......did he listen......

 

[sharkbait28]

Here me out fam...

Random thoughts here...

I think 2016 and the urgency of this election has taught a lot of people to ignore what the polls say and just go out and vote.

I'm afraid there are mechanism in place to crutail the results no matter how many people show up to vote.

Trump is far too calm for someone that the polls says should lose this election badly and very realistically can go do jail and have his properties and accounts seized

Something is afoot and guaranteed to help Trump and Co retain their titles..

Something feels very off with this election..

Well he’s already said he won’t accept the election results and I think it’s clear we’re heading towards a redux of the hanging chads situation in 2000. Especially given the unprecedented number of mail in ballots and how long it’ll take to count them. The GOP prob have their new and improved Brooks Brothers Riots game planned and there’s a reason they’re working so hard to secure Amy Coney Barrett’s SC nom for this impending battle.

I mean, have you ever heard an American POTUS say that they couldn’t “guarantee a peaceful transfer of power”. There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that we’re in for an epic shitstorm between Nov and Jan no matter who wins. Buckle in.

 

[tical]

Well he’s already said he won’t accept the election results and I think it’s clear we’re heading towards a redux of the hanging chads situation in 2000. Especially given the unprecedented number of mail in ballots and how long it’ll take to count them. The GOP prob have their new and improved Brooks Brothers Riots game planned and there’s a reason they’re working so hard to secure Amy Coney Barrett’s SC nom for this impending battle.

I mean, have you ever heard an American POTUS say that they couldn’t “guarantee a peaceful transfer of power”. There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that we’re in for an epic shitstorm between Nov and Jan no matter who wins. Buckle in.

Nailed it! I'm not sure how these disputes are resolved. But i have to assume it goes all the way to the supreme court. If that's the case then how does a stacked GOP supreme court not rule some illegitimate election result? This is assuming Biden/Harris wins outright.

How does this country not tear itself apart while other countries like Russia rub their hands together saying "Mission Accomplish. Destroy America from within?"

Folks need to understand and brace themselve. Even with an outright for Biden/Harris it doesn't mean anything to this current adminstration.

 

[tical]

I’m sure Trump was just as calm before each of his bankruptcy‘s. Trump has no grand plans, he just reacts.

Agreed for most things. But with this one i think they've had a series of plans well underway. Especially as the projections support a Biden/Harris win.

All this shit about voter fraud, his lackey at the DHS talking about foreign interference, etc isn't for show. That's all part of the plan to full blitz the election results.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

It’s genocide.

 

[praetor]

They are seriously playing "In the air tonight" at a super spreader event.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

They are seriously playing "In the air tonight" at a super spreader event.

Why do people post this shit as if it’s news? They aren’t wearing masks the same reason why they drink milk from the jug: to show their superiority.

 

[Quek9]

They are seriously playing "In the air tonight" at a super spreader event.

Hopefully, the covid kicks in just before the election so they cannot vote.

 

[carsun1000]

Ebola was touch and die...Covid is all talk and no action for those fuckers that gathered at the White House. Why do I feel like that superspreader event should have been Ebola instead of Covid. we would be singing a different song by now and even those Ghana pallbearers would be like “Nah, rain check, fellow Americans"

 

[HellBoy]

Ebola was touch and die...Covid is all talk and no action for those fuckers that gathered at the White House. Why do I feel like that superspreader event should have been Ebola instead of Covid. we would be singing a different song by now and even those Ghana pallbearers would be like “Nah, rain check, fellow Americans"

Ebola is harder to catch according to WebMD:

Ebola is much less contagious than many other more common diseases. The virus, much like HIV or hepatitis, is spread through blood or bodily fluids and is not airborne.

 

[praetor]

 

[mrcmd187]

Pence got to have the virus

 

[havelcok]

 

[Camille]

I was just coming to post this.

 

[Camille]

Trump probably smacked the heck out of her after she wouldn't hold his hand after the debate. He looked like he was mad and tried to shove her forward a bit.

 

[praetor]

 

[sammyjax]

 

[darth frosty]

 

[carsun1000]

The most dishonest types of people have invaded the White House and are the ones making calls on behalf of Americans...and some people seem okay with that...Nixon can’t even sit at the same table with Trump and his cronies....