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Life could be a dream, Life could be a dream

Ooh, dude, dude, dude, shibu

Hello, you're listening to a special quarantine edition of Life is Short. I'm your host Justin Long

Life could be a dream sweetheart, dude, dude, dude, shibu

With me is always in, in and out of quarantine. It's my brother Christian. Not always. No, I shouldn't say that. Why do I keep saying that?

It just sounds like it's got like a radio right my. I am his twin Christian long. Yeah, um, but lately we've been around each other a lot and uh,

and we've been staying positive and and thank you for allowing us to do these quarantine check-ins because we've really been enjoying them. They've been such a nice outrout to do. Thanks for thanks for listening to them. Yeah, so, um, and always thanks to Dr. Dave and all our friends that we're checking in on I think this week we're going to first check in on Dr. Dave and see how he is handling things. Dave is on the front lines in New York City. He is at Columbia Med and so he's been

doing it. Here we go. Let's do it. Dave Kessler. Dr. D.K. Dr. K.

He's very busy. Hello. Great. I'm going to try to greet you with a different just a different positive affirmation every time I call.

Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. How are you doing? Okay. How are you guys doing? We're fine. We're good. We're we just had a you know because this thing keeps changing and we keep learning new information as you can saying.

We just had a few questions about what's happened this past week and are there are there new things that you're seeing are there changes are there positive or negative that you've been noticing.

Well, this was a difficult week in New York. For sure. Yeah. Some personal losses and I think probably a lot of people don't have to go too many degrees within their lives to have seen that as well. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry Dave.

So you know, in terms of what what I've seen I guess from the national news. A couple of small changes, but maybe they give hope. The trial that Fauci was was speaking about. Yeah.

I think that's a lot of people who are not going to be as careful as the focus on prevention. Right. We were just talking about that because even if they do find something that seems to be working.

And the testing isn't is it back in a take at least a year. Yeah, well, some of these trials, there are, you know, compassionate use and emergency use. And I think it's really important. We've been through this before and even back with H1N1, you know, and another and multiple other examples.

And when there's so much attention on it, sometimes there's there's these early hopeful things, but, but this is why you have to do larger trials and conduct scientific studies because even things that have been longstanding, like held true, it's certainly into hypertension meds. Yeah.

Over time, we're found to not actually be effective when you got more and more data. So I really think it's too soon. I'm not mind the hope that you always keep hope.

Yeah, sure.

I'm not expecting huge things from that particular drugs mentioned this week.

And does that apply to the hydroxychloroquine? Is there maybe some hope that?

Yeah, I want to talk about injecting bleach because we're on the fence.

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