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Biotech / Medical : Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Investor2 who wrote (4453)	6/21/2020 7:34:30 PM
From: Sam	2 Recommendations Recommended By Glenn Petersen Steve Lokness Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22883

A lot of these studies that are being brought up are preprints. They haven't been critiqued or vetted yet. Usually, those kinds of studies never see the light of day by lay people, they are like first or second drafts, they are intended to be critiqued by other scientists who know what they are talking about. Because of the emergency, they are getting way more publicity than ought to happen and people who don't know anything give them far more credence than they would ordinarily get. IOW, there is a lot of BS going on. IMHO, experiments like the ones that have been heavily publicized about zinc and HCQ are among those. There have been far more cures and treatments for various ailments that have had anecdotal "evidence" backing them up than can be counted. This has always been the case. For awhile, interferon was going to cure everything under the sun. So was vitamin C. Now vitamin D is getting touted as a great cure all. The only reason HCQ and zinc have gotten so much publicity is due to Trump. Period. If he had touted something else, that would have been the cure du jour. That is all I have to say about this and I will say no more!