Do the NIH and WHO COVID treatment recommendations need to be fixed? Publié le 20/05/2021 à 11:06 - Mise à jour à 17:16
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Executive Summary
This is the first in a series of articles arguing that obeisance to constrictive evidence-based medicine (EBM) treatment protocols in a pandemic is causing an unnecessary loss of hundreds of thousands of lives.
If, instead of exclusively relying on EBM for developing treatment recommendations, we made medical decisions based on looking at and 1) made recommendations, which are most consistent with the evidence to date, 2) made recommendations that are more likely than not to save the most lives, and 3) considered the costs of being wrong (death vs. minor temporary side effects), then we would arrive at a completely different set of recommendations. We would not be afraid to make mistakes because we would be seeking to minimize the loss of life.
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Potential Measures For Management Of The Covid Pandemic Going Forward
by Shivaji Sondhi - May 3, 2021 12:55 PM
Fighting Covid.
Snapshot
How to counter the Covid-19 wave and guard against a future epidemic of another respiratory disease.
I suggest a toolkit of measures that can ameliorate the ongoing second wave and also guard against an endemic disease or even a third wave that arises dues to viral mutations that evade the vaccines being currently scaled up in India.
Such measures will also become the foundation of a barrier against a future epidemic of another respiratory disease: a novel influenza, or novel Covid or something altogether new. I ignore measures such as emergency acquisition of hospital treatment supplies and acceleration of the vaccination schedule which are already being deployed.