It's been said that these doctors have literally no idea about any sort of critical thinking. If it's not in a textbook, they are completely lost.
Now, I'm not a doctor, but I do know something about diagnostics. And one of the key tenets in diagnostics is - figure out exactly what the problem
is, then start with the simplest thing first, and work methodically until you've resolved the issue.
So what are the issues?
Red blood cells that are being over-produced by the body - a condition of chronic hypemic hypoxia (deprivation of oxygen to tissue) and an increase in
cytokines (cytokine storm).
"This type of hypoxia is caused by the reduced ability of the blood to carry oxygen. To the pilot, this means that,
even though there is an
adequate supply of oxygen to breathe, the blood's capacity to carry the oxygen to the cells has been impaired. There are a variety of reasons for
this to happen. Anemia, hemorrhage, hemoglobin abnormalities,
sulfa drugs, nitrites, and
carbon monoxide interfere with the ability of the
blood to carry oxygen, reducing the amount of oxygen the blood can carry to the cells. The most common cause for hypemic hypoxia in aviation is
when carbon monoxide is inhaled because of aircraft heater malfunctions, engine manifold leaks, or cockpit contamination with exhaust from other
aircraft.
Hemoglobin bonds with carbon monoxide 200 times more readily than it bonds with oxygen."
www.faa.gov...
Doesn't it strike people as being incredibly odd that the cities with the highest concentrations of carbon monoxide - the concrete jungles that trap
CO between buildings - are the ones that have the biggest issues with this?
But what I found really interesting was the listing of sulfa drugs. One such drug is dapsone, used to treat dermatitis and some types of pneumonia.
Guess what drug doctors are using to treat cytokine storm in COVID-19 patients?
"Thus, we suggest that
dapsone and doxycycline may be effective in blocking inflammatory storms and, therefore, be a promising treatment of
severe COVID-19 patients."
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...
Dapsone: Dapsone doesn’t suppress the immune system in a way that would be expected to be problematic with COVID-19, and it “washes out” in a
week or two.
www.pemphigus.org...
From the UK guidance on COVID-19 treatment:
continue hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, mepacrine,
dapsone and sulfasalazine
www.nice.org.uk...
This is a level of incompetence that beggars belief. It's not like they don't have other drugs they can use for the same thing:
"Minocycline, 100 mg daily, can be used as a substitute for Dapsone in individuals who do not tolerate this drug."
Minocycline is not a sulfa drug; it is an antibiotic that belongs to the tetracycline family. Like most sulfa drugs, it does not contain
sulfonamide.
And here's an old friend:
When sulfa drug hypersensitivity arises in toxoplasmosis patients, clindamycin,
azithromycin, or atovoquone can be substituted.
I also find it interesting that sulfa drugs used to be used in countries badly affected by malaria until clinical drug resistance was established in
the population and they had to switch to...hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.
edit on 4-5-2020 by OsirianObsidian because: (no reason
given)