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Looks like Italy may be overcoding COVID-19 deaths.
telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
This is a good point. Not sure what the Italian government is trying to claim here, really.

It mostly seems to be: "they were old and sick and were going to die soon anyway."

If their coding practice is so inaccurate why don't they change it?
Then again:
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New preprint from @PasteurKorea

"In particular, two FDA-approved drugs – niclosamide and ciclesonide – were notable in some respects. These drugs will be tested in an appropriate animal model for their antiviral activities."

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Ciclesonide/Alvesco case reports from Japan.

Original: kansensho.or.jp/uploads/files/…

Machine Translation: writening.net/page?FC3QPm
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My dad's going to the ER, fever and trouble breathing. Please pray. His doc is @docshaymd.
Update: Admitted. Stable. PCU not ICU. Flu negative. Corona test sent out.
Still waiting on corona test results. They say it takes 3-4 days.
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I am confident docs will keep following the best protocols based on available evidence, which does indicate hydroxychloroquine if a patient cannot qualify for Remdisivir trial or compassionate use.

Should not be moved toward or away from HCQ by the president's hyperbolic tweets.
The science is moving very swiftly with so many ongoing clinical trials.

Kaletra was promising and pretty widely used until it failed its trial, and now nobody is using it.
Replies indicate I was unclear.

My main concern about the POTUS tweet is that describing an unproven but promising treatment as a proven cure will discourage its use, which doctors now think is indicated in many cases. I hope that does not happen.
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This Telegraph article has left many people confused over its contents. I've attached the quote in question.

What it means is that people with existing conditions died because of CV.

It doesn't mean only 12% of reported CV deaths in Italy are accurate.
The article doesn't help itself. It starts by trying to play safe, then gets sceptical, and then violently oscillates to alarmism at its conclusion.
This is also a misleading statement.

Is Prof Ricciardi saying that anyone that dies in a hospital, even if they don't have CV, is being recorded as a CV death if CV patients are present in the hospital?

It certainly reads like that. The Telegraph need to clarify it.
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