Maybe it was the same people that told Emanuel Macron that hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin was a promising treatment. You can't act like Trump is the only leader who talked about it. Macron went further than that, spending three hours talking to the researcher who proposed using it.
Macron went and spoke with the researcher to gain additional information. I don't see anything wrong with that. After meeting with the researcher, he did not go on social media and encourage its widespread use.
Trump has taken a very different approach. Trump has prevented a doctor from responding to questions about its use. Trump was actively saying we have no time for tests, lets just use it. It appears he also fired the director of the US health department’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority for not endorsing its use.
To say that meeting with a researcher to gather information is going further than publicly shilling for its use and cracking down on those in his administration who don't advocate for it is going further is very much not accurate.
Compare these two statement. Which one sounds like a cautious and sensible approach to a combination of drugs which have not yet been approved for use against a novel virus?
"Asked about the report, the presidential adviser said Macron had taken note of a certain number of elements presented by the professor and would give it careful consideration, in particular at a meeting with his scientific advisory panel.
Macron has yet to publicly share his opinion on the controversy."
"HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains - Thank You! Hopefully they will BOTH (H works better with A, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents)....."
It's like saying that Saint Lucia has over 10 Nobel Prize laureates per million population but then finding out that the country has a population of 180,000 and that works out to 2 laureates in the country.
I believe, at least in New York, people are being counted as covid-19 deaths if they were in contact with someone who was diagnosed. They can count as a covid-19 death without ever being tested for it.
The number of deaths may be off but that is likely to be dwarfed by the much higher number of total cases that haven't been confirmed. Between this study, the LA study, and the Santa Clara study there could be 10-80x as many cases. That is more significant that the death count being off by a couple percent when it comes to determining the fatality rate.
There are a lot of people not going to hospitals either because elective procedures were canceled or they fear getting corona virus. These will contribute to excess deaths but not be caused by coronavirus.
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