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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C131072 10/25/2021 Onder For Missouri Doug Mueller 11 Big Country Circle OFallon MO 63368 Mueller Prost Accountant 10/23/2021 $5,001.00

C131072 10/25/2021 Onder For Missouri John OBrien 420 Charlemagne Lake Saint Louis MO 63367 Retired 10/23/2021 $10,000.00

C131072 10/25/2021 Onder For Missouri Matthew Conoyer 74 Castle Bluff St Charles MO 63304 Midwest ENT Physician 10/23/2021 $5,001.00

[emphasis added

For what?:

Dr. Bob Onder @BobOnderMO
This Indian slum contained COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine plus vitamin D& zinc. Very encouraging. Comes on heels of ⁦@HenryFordNews ⁩ study on HCQ plus Zpack. #moleg
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6:29 AM · Jul 23, 2020

From the National Institutes of Health (NIH):

November 24, 2020
Hydroxychloroquine doesn’t benefit hospitalized COVID-19 patients

[….] Larger, well-designed studies were needed to determine if hydroxychloroquine was a safe and effective treatment for SARS-CoV-2 infection. In April, NIH launched a clinical trial at 34 hospitals nationwide to test the medication. The study was funded by NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).

By June, the study was stopped because interim results showed the drug neither caused harm nor improved patient outcomes. The trial had enrolled 479 of the expected 510 patients. Earlier in the month, the FDA had revoked its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. It cited a lack of benefit as well as risks, such as serious heart rhythm problems. [….]

The scientists also found no differences in any of 12 additional outcomes, which included mortality 28 days after assignment to a treatment group or time to recovery. Based on the data, they concluded that hydroxychloroquine was not an effective treatment. [….]

Studies in the United Kingdom and Brazil had similar results. [….]

Dr. Bob Onder @BobOnderMO
In fact, they averaged 2.6 “comorbitities.” Although every death is a tragedy, many, many people died WITH #COVID19 , not OF #COVID19. The survival rate overall is 99.8% (CDC data) heavily weighted toward older, sicker individuals.
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2:08 PM · Aug 30, 2020

From the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in the United States to date:

TOTAL CASES 45,316,210
+77,933 New Cases
CASES IN LAST 7 DAYS 491,071
TOTAL DEATHS 733,834
+1,834 New Deaths
CDC | Data as of: October 24, 2021 5:23 PM ET. Posted: October 24, 2021 5:53 PM ET

From the World Health Organization (WHO):

Estimating mortality from COVID-19
Scientific Brief
4 August 2020

[….]
Case fatality ratio (CFR) is the proportion of individuals diagnosed with a disease who die from that disease and is therefore a measure of severity among detected cases:

Reliable CFRs that can be used to assess the deadliness of an outbreak and evaluate any implemented public health measures are generally obtained at the end of an outbreak, after all cases have been resolved (affected individuals either died or recovered).
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Calculating CFR during an ongoing epidemic
CFR calculated using the above formula during ongoing epidemics provides a conditional, estimate of CFR and is influenced by lags in report dates for cases and deaths [13]. This leads to a wide variation in CFR estimates over the course of an epidemic, which tends toward a stable, final estimate of CFR as active cases are resolved.

One simple solution to mitigating the bias due to delays to case resolution during an ongoing outbreak is to restrict the analysis to resolved cases [….]

In the United States – to date:

Case Fatality Ratio (CFR) [%] = (733,834 [total deaths]/45,316,210 [total cases} x 100

CFR = 1.62%

Dr. Bob Onder @BobOnderMO
In #HB271 we also banned #COVIDPassports! No Missourian should be subject to restrictions on their movement or personal liberties for declining to participate in an intrusive COVID passport scheme. #moleg ⁦@Koenig4MO @jmmurphy8⁦ @BenBrownTweets #Freedom
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8:13 PM · May 12, 2021

Sure, that sounds like a really good idea in a pandemic – just stick our heads in the sand and hope it all goes away.