Yes they were very hard days... we have learned much since then... but did silencing the voices change anything? I don't think so... and now, of course, we have learned more such as
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has shown efficacy against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in some but not all studies. We hypothesized that a systematic review would show HCQ to be effective against COVID-19, more effective when provided earlier, not associated with worsening disease and safe. We...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hydroxychloroquine is effective, and consistently so when provided early, for COVID-19: a systematic review
What I know about hydroxochloroquine is that it's the medicine my mom uses to fight inflammation. She uses to combat her rheumatoid arthritis. When everyone was buying it up just like they bought up the toilet paper, she couldn't get it for several months. During that time the inflammation caused irreparable damage on her hands that has progressively gotten worse
Does it help fight COVID if taken early enough? The studies are largely inconclusive so far. Some say yes, others say no. Perhaps it did. I'd be more interested to see what the consensus is in 10 years or so when enough information comes together. In any case, people seemed to have forgotten about it and went after ivermectin instead due to how easy it was to get. That didn't end well for some folks who decided to DYI it and overdose
What we still have to quantify are long-term effects of anything that we do.
This is true. So far me and everyone else who have taken the vaccine at the place of my work seem to be doing A-ok, though. I got the moderna shots and boosters. On the other hand, I can't tell you how many people I saw dying alone in isolation rooms. I'd say a good 85% of the ones that didn't make it were unvaccinated from what I saw, according to what I saw in their records
I remember when they said "the vaccine" will take care of it.
then it was "the booster" will take care of it..
then it was "a vaccine every year"..
We are still learning!
There was a lot of misinformation as there always is when the news reports on scientific/medical things - especially when it becomes political. There certainly is a narrative that the news wants to report, right or left. At worst they lie and at best they take the parts they want and ignore the rest
From my place of work, what we were told was that the purpose of the vaccine was to limit how badly we got slammed. When we became overwhelmed with COVID patients, we had to pick and choose who got treatment. Our resources were limited even though we were a larger hospital. If someone were seriously ill/dying in their room due to COVID, that took care away from other patients that needed it. Not only that but constantly gowning up and going into isolation rooms, especially when every room on the floor is a COVID room, is very time intensive. Our medical staff wasn't large enough to handle whenever there was a bad outbreak, so we just had to do the best we could. This burned a lot of staff out
The "hoax" narrative was especially rough for me to see unfold. I remember one older man who's body was shutting down, and a friend of mine who's a nurse talked to him to let him know that he should contact his family and have final words with them before he passes. He got irate with her and told her he didn't have COVID and that he just had a flu and he'd feel better after resting up and taking a nap
After the guy passed away, it hit my friend hard. She quit and moved on to an outpatient clinic so she didn't have to deal with it anymore. I can't blame her. Last I heard she's doing great, but jeez... That wasn't the only time that happened for sure. Now everyone's moved on and doesn't want to even think about COVID anymore or say it was a hoax or overblown or whatever. Imma live with some of the things that I saw till the day that I die
Sorry to ramble, it's just a lot for me to parse through still