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by gabriel34 1920 days ago
The same site sugests hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a viable terapeutic option (hcqmeta.com). For all I know the scientific consensus is that HCQ is not useful for treating COVID-19. This seems like pseudoscience stemming from cherry picked data/papers with its weakness hidden behind complexity and the large amount of references.

n.b. I have not delved deeply into the claims or the sources
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collyw 1920 days ago
This is a decent blog post by a Swedish doctor on it. Personally I have seen various studies some with good outcomes some with none.

https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/08/20/does-hydroxychloro...

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ceejayoz 1920 days ago
Rushworth claimed Sweden had reached herd immunity in September 2020. (https://www.facebook.com/sebastianrushworth/posts/when-i-pro...)

Sweden's current and largest spike occurred shortly afterwards in October. (https://covid19.who.int/region/euro/country/se; screenshot at https://imgur.com/a/lml2iiw showing the date of his claim and cases/deaths afterwards)

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collyw 1917 days ago
He addressed that in a follow up post. https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/09/28/herd-immunity-with...

Sweden didn't have overloaded hospitals, used standard pandemic guidelines (i.e. before everyone shit their pants and went full authoritarian, based on "Chinas did it" as opposed to any kind of evidence based approach). A year on and Sweden are no worse off than the average European country, so we should be asking ourselves if lockdwon was a sensible option. Sadly many people are cheering them on without any evidence to suggest they had a meaningful effect.

"But, worse than the surrounding countries" you say. Finland and Norway had minimal lock downs and no mask mandates. Also Sweden always has 5 times the number of flu deaths per capita compared to Finland on a normal year, for whatever reason.

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