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Trump Given “Polyclonal Antibody Cocktail”

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I submitted this article because I thought it was interesting which medical treatments the leader of the free world would receive vs the average patient. The article was medical in nature and not political in any way. I think it's sad the submission gets moderated off HN. I was hoping to read some interesting comments from HN users in the medical field.

The article should be unflagged, you're entirely correct about the interest aspect of the treatment being used for the President of the United States.

Thanks for doing it anyways! Moderation is great here, but still there are false positives/negatives

I made https://orangesite.sneak.cloud to discover links that get removed from the frontpage, which is how I saw this comment.

I'm not entirely sure how that site works, but that is gold. You should absolutely submit that (again).

It works by consuming the HN api and noticing how long things stay on the front page. Full source code is provided:

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/orangesite

I tend to avoid submitting my own sites more than once, and I submitted this one six months ago when I made it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742607

If you think it should be resubmitted, you may submit it yourself.

I have sumbitted a link to the primary source stating that the US president is positive for coronavirus. It got flagged and removed as well. At first I had the same reaction like you but I do understand HN tries to stir clear of US politics to avoid needless flamewars, and even though are posts are not political in nature they still prefer to moderate these borderline posts because let's be honest they would lead to stupid flamewars anyway.

Unless he was getting fairly sick I’m surprised he would be given such an experimental drug that has only been tested on a few hundred much younger people.

Guessing he asked for it.

Edit: Reports saying he’s going to the hospital now.

The technique is not overly new https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_antibody

Walter Reed has a presidential suite, the staff is likely being overly cautious. There should be a live view of him walking to Marine 1 soon

Now they are reporting he's being sent to Walter Reed Hospital

Bit surprised to see aspirin in there. Anticoagulants are standard AFAIK, but I thought they used apixaban or camostat.

Wait, melatonin can help with covid-19 treatment?

I was surprised about the famotidine, I had not heard much about that being used:

https://hartfordhealthcare.org/about-us/news-press/news-deta...

I'd heard about ranitidine, but that was taken off the market (for unrelated reasons). Famotidine is in the same family - in fact it's what I take now - so makes sense I guess.

Also: the proton-pump inhibitors (xyz-azole) that constitute the other main family of chronic-heartburn medications have apparently been associated with a significant increase in COVID-19 mortality.

It's part of the standard practice that was submitted here earlier:

https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/covid_care_for_clinicians/#d.e...

and zinc, dont forget the zinc! ... but no hydroxychloroquine ?

came here to say just that !

And now he is getting remdesevir, interesting.

I already replied for melatonin, but this is the standard care protocol:

https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/covid_care_for_clinicians/#d.e...

Jeez the clickbait at the bottom gave me eye cancer. Really goes to show how much the advertising model is failing the journalism industry

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