Last week, I discussed chloroquine (and hydroxychloroquine) for COVID, and the complete lack of convincing evidence. There are various other treatments that have been proposed, but none of them have strong evidence. However, seeing as COVID is a virus, I guess we should take some time to look at antiviral […]
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Time for another rapid recap of some important, inane, or interesting emergency medicine literature. Not a single paper about coronavirus though – you will have to stick to CNN for that. As always, the podcast version will be on the BroomeDocs podcast. Hold up – you want to shove that […]
Tamiflu doesn’t work – at least not for anything important. In fact, because of its many side effects, it is probably harmful. For anyone following this evidence based debacle over the last decade, I think that conclusion is pretty clear. You can read a little bit about the Tamiflu saga […]