Interesting video with Dr. Smith. If I understand him correct, the average body mass index of his patients is 30.7, meaning they are obese. Also diabetic/pre diabetic seems to be the other main comorbidities.
If one of the main characteristics of patients with the virus is a high BMI, then the virus may not have as bad an affect on the third world countries as they are having in first world countries. ie: This may be one of the reasons Africa seems to be underrepresented in numbers of cases.
Dr. Smith also seems to confirm the chloroquine/Azithromycin treatment.
You may have to click on the Fox link to get the video with Dr. Smith.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-st...symptoms-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-pandemic
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Dr. Stephen Smith, founder of The Smith Center for Infectious Diseases and Urban Health, said on “
The Ingraham Angle” on Wednesday night that he is optimistic about the use of antimalarial medications and antibiotics to treat
COVID-19 patients, calling it “a game-changer.”
“I think this is the beginning of the end of the pandemic. I’m very serious,” Smith, an infectious disease specialist, told host
Laura Ingraham.
Currently there is no known cure for the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the globe.
Smith, who is treating 72 COVID-19 patients, said that he has been treating "everybody with
hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin [an antibiotic]. We’ve been doing so for a while.”
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He pointed out that not a single COVID-19 patient of his that has been on the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin regimen for five days or more has had to be intubated.
“The chance of that occurring by chance, according to my sons Leon and Hunter who did some stats for me, are .000-something,” he said, adding that “it’s ridiculously low."
Smith explained that “intubation means actually putting a tube down into your trachea and then you’re placed on the ventilator for respiratory support.”
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The Food and Drug Administration recently announced an
emergency-use authorization for several drugs, including hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, despite a lack of clear evidence of their effectiveness.
A study published earlier this month by French researchers suggested that COVID-19 patients could be treated with antimalarial medication and antibiotics in the battle against the novel coronavirus.
Smith noted on Wednesday that he thinks his data supports the French study.
“Now you actually have an intra-cohort comparison saying that this regimen works,” he told Ingraham.
