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Posting some reflections on the #ACTT & #RECOVERY trials related to #remdesivir & #dexamethasone for the treatment of #COVID19
Those results feel like definitive advances, but we need to realize their limitations and need for confirmation despite everyone's #pandemic fatigue
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Those results feel like definitive advances, but we need to realize their limitations and need for confirmation despite everyone's #pandemic fatigue
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There are lot of skeptics in and outside of #Twitter on the results of both trials, strong emotions regarding big-pharma made medications, the way the #EUA was made, also about use of #steroids in the #ICU that has a quite rocky history among those who run those units.
And we need to acknowledge from the outset all sorts of basic, and not so basic, emotions that come in the doing clinical trials, exacerbated by academic cliques, national defense issues (and nationalisms) that can get exacerbated with the strains in health systems.
