So meanwhile Dr. Burke is up laughing about that for a while. Stock market is up. So here's a question that I haven't heard anybody ask. It looks like there are three or four therapeutics for the coronavirus that look promising and I haven't heard anybody ask if we can take them all at the same time. Because I have to admit so far I'm a little bit underwhelmed by the early information we have about all of it, from hydroxychloroquine to Remdesivir or whatever.

The good news on Remdesivir is that there didn't seem to be any statistical difference in the death rate but people were getting cleared and I guess getting out of the hospital sooner. And I thought to myself, yeah, but if it's the same death rate, like you might be forgetting one thing that your trial found while you're talking about all the good news is that it didn't make a difference in the death rate. Now I don't know what difference it did make. I mean I'm happy that people went home earlier. I'm glad that they maybe their cough went away a little bit sooner. I'm glad that they could breathe a little bit easier maybe a full four days earlier than otherwise. But it's kind of about keeping people alive. So unless there's more to this Remdesivir story than we've heard, it feels a little bit exaggerated. But I would not doubt that it has some effects.

So my question is if the hydroxychloroquine has some effect and the interferon has some effect, we heard that there's some other thing that has some effect, is there anybody smart enough or is there even a way to know? Because we wouldn't have time to test it. I don't think we'd be able to test just pumping all that stuff into somebody and see what happens. What do we — I mean maybe we would. I suppose we would test it at the same time we're giving it to people probably. Or is this the sort of thing you can run through a supercomputer and say, well these kinds of things almost never interfere with these kinds of things even if you add this other kind of thing. So is this the sort of thing we have AI at this point that we can at least narrow down the odds and say, well we can't be positive but it's a very low chance that these particular things will interact.

So it could be. And I understand that there's some trials that are winding up pretty soon. So in the next few weeks I think we're going to have really good information. And if it turns out we can take these as a cocktail — and I would think it's more likely we can than we can't, wouldn't you think if you had to guess? Yeah, if you put — given that the actual medical professionals have been wrong about just about everything so far, we can guess right. Let's be doctors for a minute. If you had to guess, let's say all of these, let's say there are three or four things that are all sort of pretty good but not great, what do you think of the odds that they can all work together?

Oh, you know, actually that's a good point because here I was assuming that these were new drugs and therefore there would not be any kind of drug interaction documentation. But of course yes, they're all existing drugs so the fact that they exist already means that the drug interaction documentation has been done. But those drug interaction things couldn't possibly already know what would happen with that combination. The odds that that combination is actually documented if there are three or four of them, they have never been used in that combination before. All right, so that's my question. But it could be we're right on the edge of having something that'll take the edge off that virus.

Yes, fifty-nine thousand people dead and nobody thinks it's gonna let up. So remember was it only a week ago that people were saying, you know, we told you if it's only gonna be sixty thousand dead, you know, that's not much worse than the regular flu. But we're gonna be past sixty thousand tomorrow and we may have another fifty thousand. Would you say — do you think the month of May will have two thousand a day which is sort of what we've had? Let's say it trails off. Let's say we did get on top of it and let's say it averages a thousand a day when we really get on top of it. We'd still be pushing a hundred thousand in the best success story and that's before the summer even starts. But more likely we're gonna blow through a hundred thousand well before June. And unless these therapeutics really stop people from dying, which was my question about the Remdesivir, I don't know.

It looks like the plan, if everything went according to plan, I feel like the plan is for two hundred to three hundred thousand people to die. I feel like, you know, without that being actually said.