Falling hospital death rate from covid is good, but several possible explainations: 1. Pts admitted have less baseline risk (in ways not captured by covariates) 2. In the begining, cowboy med led to iatrogenic death 3. Better therapies/protocols 4. Other Still open Q
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Oh except I'm not as sure about cowboy medicine. Despite the media hype, most of the medications that were used early on like HCQ, while ineffective, were in part chosen because they were so safe!
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The drugs were a distraction and the result may have been less attention paid to provision of evidence based supportive care (+ KOL pushing their own ideas, e.g. the «atypical ARDS debacle»).
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