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Hydroxychloroquine

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The FDA has issued an authorization for emergency use.

That’s nice, considering how much we’ve been fighting red tape since this started. But early results have been encouraging. Italy and France have been not just allowing, but prescribing it.

[Update a while later]

No, Dan Diamond at Politico, there is not “scant evidence.” But you just keep being garbage.

[Update a few minutes later]

It’s not enough that we have to fight the virus; we have to continue to fight the FDA.

I agree with Glenn: “The thing is, Trump can intervene in these things, but there’s still delay, and there’s only so much a President can do to chivvy along the bureaucracy. I think he should announce that he’ll have a team of managers from outside government evaluate the performance of the FDA, CDC, NIH when this is over, with those found to have under-performed to be sacked.”

Bureaucracy can be just as deadly as a virus. The good news is that all of this is feeding the public’s desire to drain the DC swamp.

They’ll get to have a say in November.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Trump is slashing red tape again like he was 39.

[Update late morning]

Speaking of garbage journalism, read the latest from Treacher: “I can’t even imagine what poor Yamiche Alcindor from the PBS NewsHour is going through right now. It really puts my own petty concerns into perspective.”

I have to say that one of the people in whom I’ve been most disappointed in terms of TDS is S. E. Cupp. I used to have a lot of respect for her.

[Update a few minutes later]

[Noon update]

To get back to the original post topic, a doctor in New York has successfully treated almost 700 patients with no failures.

This might really be the magic bullet. If it’s prophylactic, the key is to ramp up production immediately, to get the economy going again.

[Update mid afternoon]

A Brita filter for blood.

This could have saved a lot of people a century ago; let’s hope it helps now.

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Lockdown

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Is it inevitable, and soon? It’s a good idea to prepare, but I don’t think it will be necessary. In any event, unless we cancel tomorrow’s fumigation, we have to leave the house until Monday.

[Update later morning]

If this is true, it’s great news. The case-fatality rate may be only a tenth of a percent.

[Update mid-afternoon]

This is stupid. How do these people expect the needed goods to be moved with the war on truckers?

[Update Friday morning]

More on the trucker’s plight.

[Update a few minutes later]

I’d been needing a haircut, but put it off too long, I guess (I always procrastinate, because I hate getting haircuts). Other than the impact on the proprietors’ businesses, no one will suffer from not getting a tattoo, but hair grows.

[Bumped]

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California

…is a cruel, medieval state.

As a resident, I can attest. Not sure how much longer we’ll stay here, though there are signs that perhaps the Democrats have overreached.

What they don’t tell you, of course, is that while the state is technically in surplus currently, it has unfunded liabilities of hundreds of billions in pensions. California is a poster child for what happens when you let uninformed innumerate idiots vote.