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curl-6 on 23 January 2021
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SvennoJ said:

It's mostly on the people to bring the spread down. As you can see by the graphs I posted, the first wave was done in 2 months and continued to reach a minimum in June. The second wave was positively underway in September and now more than 4 months later we might finally be seeing the actual peak of the second wave. Globally daily cases have only continued to go up. People are great at adjusting to the new normal, in this case, continually increasing base numbers. What was first a small peak is now pretty much a straight line.

There is still another way out, a cure
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-researchers-say-they-have-found-an-effective-drug-to-fight-covid-19-1.5279310

A team of researchers from the Montreal Heart Institute believes they have found an effective weapon against COVID-19: colchicine, an oral tablet already known and used for other diseases.

For Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif, who led the study, this is a "major scientific discovery" and colchicine is the first "effective oral drug to treat out-of-hospital patients."

Analysis of the study found that colchicine resulted in reductions in hospitalizations by 25 per cent, the need for mechanical ventilation by 50 per cent, and deaths by 44 per cent.

"Our study showed the effectiveness of treatment using colchicine to prevent the phenomenon of the major inflammatory storm and reduce complications related to COVID-19," said Tardif.

Colchicine could be used very quickly to treat people with COVID-19, the researcher says.

"Colchicine is old as it is, we've been treating gout with it for hundreds of years, so it's available in pharmacies, so any doctor tomorrow who reads this can definitely decide to prescribe if he wants."



Great news, hopefully not a signal to governments that cases can go up by 50% to fill the lower need for ICU care....

This is fantastic news; for all the progress we've made on the vaccine front, treatments have not progressed as quickly, with dexamethasone being the one really significant breakthrough prior to this latest one. A 44% reduction in mortality is a terrific result.

The fact it's a very old, well known, and widely available drug as opposed to something new, poorly understood and in limited supply is even better.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 23 January 2021