The virus makes the timeline

Mar 30, 2020
Mar 30, 2020 Updated Apr 13, 2025
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Editor,

I’m responding to Ed Kahl’s comments “ways to prevent the spread” in the letter to the editor 3/26/20. Mr. Kahl recommends hydroxychloroquine and Z-Pak treatment as a remedy for COVID-19. In a TIME article from 3/24/20 by Alice Park “President Trump Called Hydroxychloroquine a Game Changer,” Dr. David Sullivan, professor of microbiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health says, “right now, we have no clinical evidence that it works.”

(6) comments

BenToy Mar 30, 2020 12:43pm

"......Mr. Kahl recommends hydroxychloroquine and Z-Pak treatment as a remedy for COVID-19...."

Has Mr Kahl taken this treatment himself ?

Does Mr Kahl know that a tRump supporter couple took that recommendation and the husband died. Wife was still alive and told the news. Plus how disappointed she was in the advice...

Dirk van Ulden Mar 30, 2020 2:59pm

Come on Ben, you just torpedoed your credibility. The man died because he took an aquarium cleanser with a name that resembled hydroxychloroquine. You anti-Trumpers won't let up, ever? The President never endorsed the drug but believed it could be a promising solution subject to approval by the FDA.

BenToy Mar 31, 2020 10:33am

Read his widow's comments while recovering in the hospital...

Here is a link to one article of many:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-news-arizona-man-dies-after-taking-chloroquine-drug-touted-by-trump-as-treatment/

Quote from that article:

Her husband is dead & she's in the ICU after ingesting chloroquine:

"We saw Trump on TV -- every channel -- & all of his buddies and that this was safe," she said.

"Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure."

"Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure," she said, adding her advice for people would be, "Don't take anything. Don't believe anything. Don't believe anything that the president says and his people ... call your doctor."

JME Mar 31, 2020 2:58pm

Are you blaming the Democrats for our leader's ignorance?

Terence Y Mar 31, 2020 6:12pm

Please, BenToy, you're just digging yourself in a deeper hole. So this lady thinks fish cleaner is the cure, just because it has one of the ingredients in a different compound? Would you sprinkle Clorox bleach over your food if you wanted some salt, just because bleach has both sodium and chlorine? I won't bother reading the fake news link because it's obvious they're just trying to score political points against Trump. I just wonder whether they will charge the lady with manslaughter or attempted murder.

BenToy Mar 30, 2020 12:54pm

The 14 day incubation period before symptoms show is NOT an absolute time frame

Here is the common reference: "....These symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure (based on the incubation period of MERS-CoV viruses)...." and notice the word "MAY"

So that could be 15 days or more for some.

During that incubation period, they are INFECTIOUS spewing out the virus both by mouth and touch

Here is a good diagram showing how this very long incubation period spreads the virus

https://thespinoff.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid-19-Transmission-graphic-01.gif?fbclid=IwAR1g9ddq_sxHF5PnZM6zDu9s3fVWCNVwhNEeI-GHhydXI0kZcHNI6rj4UQY

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