Regarding HCQ, the recent large-N studies were observational and looks like patients there were given HCQ late and if they were relatively sicker. Using it early on could still work (but now there won’t be an RCT for that thanks to numerous delendae).
Regarding schools, did the countries that reopened those already fare particularly worse?
I don’t have that info regarding schools but also no one is systematically collecting data on anything and everything is confounded, including by control systems.
On HCQ, as I noted in the other comment on it, I’m mostly predicting/observing that the scientific community has decided it’s going to reject HCQ, preventing it from becoming a consensus treatment. This is partly for ‘good’ reasons, partly for not-so-good reasons that have nothing to do with science, partly because they no longer know how or are not allowed to study things in ways that would uncover the information.
This is different from the question of what you should do if you or someone you care about gets sick! To which I reply IANAD and for legal and other good reasons, I have no net useful advice for you here.
In Israel schools were recently reopened, 31(last I checked) schools have had cases over the last couple weeks. A notable school reportedly had over 100.
Before the country reopened the rate was around 20 infections a day. Currently in the 50-60 infections per day (on most days) area.
This seems to support schools being important
Regarding HCQ, the recent large-N studies were observational and looks like patients there were given HCQ late and if they were relatively sicker. Using it early on could still work (but now there won’t be an RCT for that thanks to numerous delendae).
Regarding schools, did the countries that reopened those already fare particularly worse?
I don’t have that info regarding schools but also no one is systematically collecting data on anything and everything is confounded, including by control systems.
On HCQ, as I noted in the other comment on it, I’m mostly predicting/observing that the scientific community has decided it’s going to reject HCQ, preventing it from becoming a consensus treatment. This is partly for ‘good’ reasons, partly for not-so-good reasons that have nothing to do with science, partly because they no longer know how or are not allowed to study things in ways that would uncover the information.
This is different from the question of what you should do if you or someone you care about gets sick! To which I reply IANAD and for legal and other good reasons, I have no net useful advice for you here.
In Israel schools were recently reopened, 31(last I checked) schools have had cases over the last couple weeks. A notable school reportedly had over 100.
Before the country reopened the rate was around 20 infections a day. Currently in the 50-60 infections per day (on most days) area. This seems to support schools being important
Here’s a (high) schools data point… https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1266976828549238785?s=19