University of Pittsburgh about to save us all-we celebrating

[L A M P]

Part of me is thankful, obviously.. but the petty side of me is disappointed that somewhere, Mark May is celebrating.

 

[Dwinstitles]

Just in time for D'Eriq King's Heisman campaign

Stopped reading after a Miami QB and Heisman campaign attached to it

 

[reg]

Stopped reading after a Miami QB and Heisman campaign attached to it

We all stopped reading at that point, considering it was the end of the post.

 

[JD08]

Right To Try might just get this approved faster.

This should be moved to the Covid forum.

 

[Hoyacane1620]

I've read that this drug they have been working on at Pitt is more of a treatment for the virus - lessens the symptoms and speeds up the recovery. It isn't a vaccine, per se. It was compared to Tamaflu.

 

[jw410]

Testing will take minimum 6 months to approve. Forget this football season. It’s over. Sucks to say

No football No sports.. Ok

 

[Go Canes!!]

I've read that this drug they have been working on at Pitt is more of a treatment for the virus - lessens the symptoms and speeds up the recovery. It isn't a vaccine, per se. It was compared to Tamaflu.

That’s what we need. Something to treat the seriously affected and have everyone else get back to their lives.

 

[NC_Canes_11]

Right To Try might just get this approved faster.

This should be moved to the Covid forum.

Isn’t there also some clause or something that says if a drug is already available that it takes a shorter time to get it approved for other uses? Something about it not having to go through full stages of testing, as if it were a new drug?

 

[gruntking]

Chloroquine and now this measles vaccine connection... we just may end up winning the Coastal yet.

 

[JD08]

Isn’t there also some clause or something that says if a drug is already available that it takes a shorter time to get it approved for other uses? Something about it not having to go through full stages of testing, as if it were a new drug?

Yes, but this doesn't sound like an existing drug.

You might be referring to off label use.

 

[Dwinstitles]

We all stopped reading at that point, considering it was the end of the post.

Yea it was a joke in a joke I guess?
Lol

 

[Turnoverchaincane]

I'll never call it ****tsburgh again.

It's ****sburgh silly. Not ****tsburgh. The place is a pit!!!

Go Canes!!!!

 

[reg]

Yea it was a joke in a joke I guess?
Lol

Good ****, my man!

 

[jakeman1]

A new vaccine will take months to approve, Doctors are not prohibited from prescribing alternative medicines and certainly won't be going forward imo.

We're doing it right now. We should know more over the next week or so how effective hydroxychloroquine with or without azithromycin are. The study from France showed complete eradication of the virus by PCR by Day 5. It's a small study, but we've been writing these drugs for years, and since there's no approved therapy, trying them does no harm. Will see. For those into that sort of thing, it's a small study, but there are several others with chloroquine, and the p-value of this study is 0.001, meaning the odds of this happening by chance is 0.1%. Again, small studies, because they're being done fast to try to get some results, but so far, things look very good.

 

[Kjdcanefan]

We're doing it right now. We should know more over the next week or so how effective hydroxychloroquine with or without azithromycin are. The study from France showed complete eradication of the virus by PCR by Day 5. It's a small study, but we've been writing these drugs for years, and since there's no approved therapy, trying them does no harm. Will see. For those into that sort of thing, it's a small study, but there are several others with chloroquine, and the p-value of this study is 0.001, meaning the odds of this happening by chance is 0.1%. Again, small studies, because they're being done fast to try to get some results, but so far, things look very good.

Man bringing P value in a Cannes forum just gave me flashbacks of my statistics class. If the P is low, the null has gotta go!

 

[Atom Atlas]

Let's hope everything they're doing will help lead to a cure as soon as reasonably possible...

 

[MainLineCane]

Always hoping for good news.....BUT learned long ago not to believe ANY hype until you actually see or hear of it performing well during the regularly season.

This "drug" hasn't even gone through 7 on7's OR Spring Training yet.

In the meantime I'll keep my Champagne corked.

 

[jakeman1]

Always hoping for good news.....BUT learned long ago not to believe ANY hype until you actually see or hear of it performing well during the regularly season.

This "drug" hasn't even gone through 7 on7's OR Spring Training yet.

In the meantime I'll keep my Champagne corked.

I would be more skeptical, but there's been a lot of data looking at the drugs against SARS-CoV, back in 2003. Both hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin are written regularly, for other things, and they're both safe, just being re-purposed for this. Worst case, they don't help, but there's already some cases where people have been treated and recovered. I just saw the guy from Lost recovered after he was treated with it. The big test will be this week, when New York starts treating thousands of people with it. That will give a lot more data.

 

[MainLineCane]

I would be more skeptical, but there's been a lot of data looking at the drugs against SARS-CoV, back in 2003. Both hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin are written regularly, for other things, and they're both safe, just being re-purposed for this. Worst case, they don't help, but there's already some cases where people have been treated and recovered. I just saw the guy from Lost recovered after he was treated with it. The big test will be this week, when New York starts treating thousands of people with it. That will give a lot more data.

I hear ya Jake

Sorry as I said, want to believe....BUT REALITY always seems to get in the way.

Always hearing of these miraculous recoveries, many later proven to be false. Well, news sources need content and people need hope so these stories will always proliferate.

But believe whatever you wish, I can only speak for myself . ...I always save my celebration and party until i can actually see the final score....not while game is still ongoing.. nothing wrong with cheering along the way though.

 

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

We're doing it right now. We should know more over the next week or so how effective hydroxychloroquine with or without azithromycin are. The study from France showed complete eradication of the virus by PCR by Day 5. It's a small study, but we've been writing these drugs for years, and since there's no approved therapy, trying them does no harm. Will see. For those into that sort of thing, it's a small study, but there are several others with chloroquine, and the p-value of this study is 0.001, meaning the odds of this happening by chance is 0.1%. Again, small studies, because they're being done fast to try to get some results, but so far, things look very good.

Saw the p-values.

Astonishing you could get such low p-values with such a small n. Shouldn’t take too long to cycle up a multi-center trial with hundreds of patients.

If this can be replicated with a much larger n, it’s case closed: we found ourselves a highly effective treatment for virus eradication in the critically ill.