Future of Division III

[jaybird44]

In the category of offering a little something different, but still related information...

The Heart of America Athletic Conference in the NAIA is moving forward with fall sports.

http://www.heartofamericaconference.com/article/4211.php

It will be interesting to watch how successful it is in conducting fall sports...regarding its precautions taken before games, and the rate of COVID-19 infections that come from the games.  Especially regarding how the football season progresses.

[Ralph Turner]

I have been away from the boards because of very busy 2 weeks. July is usually a very busy month for me because of social "non-distancing" that happens every fall.

HCQ works! Please read the background material and the references in the "blue font". When we compare the outcome of public health policy recommended by our experts at the NIH, CDC and FDA versus what the experts at the Indian Council of Medical Research recommended, Dr Fauci, the CDC, the FDA and everyone else look pathetic. President Trump was right! HCQ works.

Give it early!  Give it often! Give it prophylactically to high risk individuals! HCQ works!

From the article, ...the US' death from COVID is 20 times higher than India's.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/what_made_asias_largest_slum_a_success_model_for_treating_covid19.html

Give everyone HCQ who wants to take it (or mandate it as people are talking about for the vaccine) and get on with life.



Update...  You may not see this at NYT, WaPo, NBC, CBS, ABC MSNBC and any other Main Stream Media (MSM) platform.

Google was caught blacklisting conservative sites such as American Thinker. The "technical" glitch was uncovered and reported yesterday.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/google_blacklists_american_thinker_and_reverses_it_after_its_blacklisting_of_conservative_sites_is_exposed.html

[Gregory Sager]

I have been away from the boards because of very busy 2 weeks. July is usually a very busy month for me because of social "non-distancing" that happens every fall.

[jknezek]

I have been away from the boards because of very busy 2 weeks. July is usually a very busy month for me because of social "non-distancing" that happens every fall.

HCQ works! Please read the background material and the references in the "blue font". When we compare the outcome of public health policy recommended by our experts at the NIH, CDC and FDA versus what the experts at the Indian Council of Medical Research recommended, Dr Fauci, the CDC, the FDA and everyone else look pathetic. President Trump was right! HCQ works.

Give it early!  Give it often! Give it prophylactically to high risk individuals! HCQ works!

From the article, ...the US' death from COVID is 20 times higher than India's.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/what_made_asias_largest_slum_a_success_model_for_treating_covid19.html

Give everyone HCQ who wants to take it (or mandate it as people are talking about for the vaccine) and get on with life.



Update...  You may not see this at NYT, WaPo, NBC, CBS, ABC MSNBC and any other Main Stream Media (MSM) platform.

Google was caught blacklisting conservative sites such as American Thinker. The "technical" glitch was uncovered and reported yesterday.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/google_blacklists_american_thinker_and_reverses_it_after_its_blacklisting_of_conservative_sites_is_exposed.html

please tell me you were hacked....

[ADL70]

I have been away from the boards because of very busy 2 weeks. July is usually a very busy month for me because of social "non-distancing" that happens every fall.

HCQ works! Please read the background material and the references in the "blue font". When we compare the outcome of public health policy recommended by our experts at the NIH, CDC and FDA versus what the experts at the Indian Council of Medical Research recommended, Dr Fauci, the CDC, the FDA and everyone else look pathetic. President Trump was right! HCQ works.

Give it early!  Give it often! Give it prophylactically to high risk individuals! HCQ works!

From the article, ...the US' death from COVID is 20 times higher than India's.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/what_made_asias_largest_slum_a_success_model_for_treating_covid19.html

Give everyone HCQ who wants to take it (or mandate it as people are talking about for the vaccine) and get on with life.



Update...  You may not see this at NYT, WaPo, NBC, CBS, ABC MSNBC and any other Main Stream Media (MSM) platform.

Google was caught blacklisting conservative sites such as American Thinker. The "technical" glitch was uncovered and reported yesterday.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/google_blacklists_american_thinker_and_reverses_it_after_its_blacklisting_of_conservative_sites_is_exposed.html

HCQ only one of several factors leading to India's experience.

The one study cited reported on HCQ plus Azithromycin, but there was no mention of use of Azithromycin in India. Much criticism of this case study follow the article. The cases were in NY State not India.

[Gray Fox]

There are currently 2734 clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov

242 relate to HCQ

Of those  70 are not yet recruiting
               107 are recruiting
                 8 are enrolling by invitation
                18 are active not recruiting
                10 are suspended
                4 are terminated
                19 are completed
                 6 are withdrawn
                 

[thescottharris]

I have been away from the boards because of very busy 2 weeks. July is usually a very busy month for me because of social "non-distancing" that happens every fall.

HCQ works! Please read the background material and the references in the "blue font". When we compare the outcome of public health policy recommended by our experts at the NIH, CDC and FDA versus what the experts at the Indian Council of Medical Research recommended, Dr Fauci, the CDC, the FDA and everyone else look pathetic. President Trump was right! HCQ works.

Give it early!  Give it often! Give it prophylactically to high risk individuals! HCQ works!

From the article, ...the US' death from COVID is 20 times higher than India's.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/what_made_asias_largest_slum_a_success_model_for_treating_covid19.html

Give everyone HCQ who wants to take it (or mandate it as people are talking about for the vaccine) and get on with life.



Update...  You may not see this at NYT, WaPo, NBC, CBS, ABC MSNBC and any other Main Stream Media (MSM) platform.

Google was caught blacklisting conservative sites such as American Thinker. The "technical" glitch was uncovered and reported yesterday.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/google_blacklists_american_thinker_and_reverses_it_after_its_blacklisting_of_conservative_sites_is_exposed.html

Yeah, hard pass on reading anything from American Thinker when there is a link at the top to another article whose headline starts out as "leftist radicals" and another headline with "Pelosi endorses anti-Jewishness." If I wanted to be indoctrinated with propaganda I'd just follow Trump on Twitter!

[Ralph Turner]

Yeah, hard pass on reading anything from American Thinker when there is a link at the top to another article whose headline starts out as "leftist radicals" and another headline with "Pelosi endorses anti-Jewishness." If I wanted to be indoctrinated with propaganda I'd just follow Trump on Twitter!

I will make it more palatable for you.

LA Times

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-24/dharavi-slum-in-mumbai-india-contained-covid-19

and a news article with a quote from WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

http://newsonair.com/News?title=WHO-says-COVID-19-can-be-controlled%2C-Cites-Mumbai%26%2339%3Bs-Dharavi-as-example&id=393507

New York Gov Cuomo's health care policies caused more deaths (32,617) than all of India (29,890). As of today, worldometer showed New York's death rate at 1677 per million and India's at 22 per Million.

20 times more deaths in the US and the Fauci-led public health policy compared with the policy by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is shameful.

The US is not employing "best practices"!

[OzJohnnie]

For those brave enough to read arguments contrary to their vested interest, here is this.

Coronavirus: Why everyone was wrong

Beda M Stadler is the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus.

This is not an accusation, but a ruthless taking stock [of the current situation]. I could slap myself, because I looked at Sars-CoV2- way too long with panic. I am also somewhat annoyed with many of my immunology colleagues who so far have left the discussion about Covid-19 to virologist and epidemiologist. I feel it is time to criticise some of the main and completely wrong public statements about this virus...

On our way back to normal, it would be good for us citizens if a few scaremongers apologised. Such as doctors who wanted a triage of over 80 year old Covid patients in order to stop ventilating them. Also media that kept showing alarmist videos of Italian hospitals to illustrate a situation that as such didn’t exist. All politicians calling for “testing, testing, testing” without even knowing what the test actually measures.

[jknezek]

Yeah, hard pass on reading anything from American Thinker when there is a link at the top to another article whose headline starts out as "leftist radicals" and another headline with "Pelosi endorses anti-Jewishness." If I wanted to be indoctrinated with propaganda I'd just follow Trump on Twitter!

I will make it more palatable for you.

LA Times

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-24/dharavi-slum-in-mumbai-india-contained-covid-19

and a news article with a quote from WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

http://newsonair.com/News?title=WHO-says-COVID-19-can-be-controlled%2C-Cites-Mumbai%26%2339%3Bs-Dharavi-as-example&id=393507

New York Gov Cuomo's health care policies caused more deaths (32,617) than all of India (29,890). As of today, worldometer showed New York's death rate at 1677 per million and India's at 22 per Million.

20 times more deaths in the US and the Fauci-led public health policy compared with the policy by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is shameful.

The US is not employing "best practices"!

Except none of that talks about HCQ, which was the point of your original political propaganda. Those articles quite rightly mention the success of contact tracing, testing, education and strict quarantine, the methods that worked in China, South Korea and other areas but were NOT mandated here by those in charge until much too late. Your propaganda piece says one thing that is completely unsupported by the articles they quote.

If HCQ on it's own really worked, Brazil, where they are handing it out like candy, wouldn't be the hot mess it is. Despite President Trump's wishes, and his mouthpiece claims, HCQ has had no significant proven medical success. Other methods like testing, tracing, and quarantine have worked. The American experience has been an abject failure so far. Failure usually lands on the boss's desk. Responsibility starts at the top....

[jamtod]

For those brave enough to read arguments contrary to their vested interest, here is this.

Coronavirus: Why everyone was wrong

Beda M Stadler is the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus.

This is not an accusation, but a ruthless taking stock [of the current situation]. I could slap myself, because I looked at Sars-CoV2- way too long with panic. I am also somewhat annoyed with many of my immunology colleagues who so far have left the discussion about Covid-19 to virologist and epidemiologist. I feel it is time to criticise some of the main and completely wrong public statements about this virus...

On our way back to normal, it would be good for us citizens if a few scaremongers apologised. Such as doctors who wanted a triage of over 80 year old Covid patients in order to stop ventilating them. Also media that kept showing alarmist videos of Italian hospitals to illustrate a situation that as such didn't exist. All politicians calling for "testing, testing, testing" without even knowing what the test actually measures.

An interesting piece and some helpful perspective on some things. Sad that that gets lost in exaggeration (which is apparently his style) and misunderstanding about masking, as well as claims that COVID is gone for now, since it's a cold virus which disappears in summer.

If only.

The parts where he speaks to his area of expertise are interesting though, specifically with areas infected with SARS-Cov1. Unfortunately (or fortunately) that virus did not spread widely so doesn't do much for most of the world.

For context, this was published in German in mid-June.

[Ralph Turner]

Clark University, Mount Holyoke College, UMass Boston and Dartmouth are most likely to 'perish,' according to new analysis

Lots of D3 names mentioned in a blog post by Scott Galloway, a NYU Marketing professor.  He categorized 436 US News & World Report Colleges according to Thrive- Survive- Struggle- Perish.

https://www.masslive.com/news/2020/07/clark-university-mount-holyoke-college-umass-boston-and-dartmouth-are-most-likely-to-perish-according-to-new-analysis.html

[Ralph Turner]

Yeah, hard pass on reading anything from American Thinker when there is a link at the top to another article whose headline starts out as "leftist radicals" and another headline with "Pelosi endorses anti-Jewishness." If I wanted to be indoctrinated with propaganda I'd just follow Trump on Twitter!

I will make it more palatable for you.

LA Times

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-24/dharavi-slum-in-mumbai-india-contained-covid-19

and a news article with a quote from WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

http://newsonair.com/News?title=WHO-says-COVID-19-can-be-controlled%2C-Cites-Mumbai%26%2339%3Bs-Dharavi-as-example&id=393507

New York Gov Cuomo's health care policies caused more deaths (32,617) than all of India (29,890). As of today, worldometer showed New York's death rate at 1677 per million and India's at 22 per Million.

20 times more deaths in the US and the Fauci-led public health policy compared with the policy by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is shameful.

The US is not employing "best practices"!

Except none of that talks about HCQ, which was the point of your original political propaganda. Those articles quite rightly mention the success of contact tracing, testing, education and strict quarantine, the methods that worked in China, South Korea and other areas but were NOT mandated here by those in charge until much too late. Your propaganda piece says one thing that is completely unsupported by the articles they quote.

If HCQ on it's own really worked, Brazil, where they are handing it out like candy, wouldn't be the hot mess it is. Despite President Trump's wishes, and his mouthpiece claims, HCQ has had no significant proven medical success. Other methods like testing, tracing, and quarantine have worked. The American experience has been an abject failure so far. Failure usually lands on the boss's desk. Responsibility starts at the top....

Yes the article does talk about HCQ efficacy: a June 9, 2020 article in Tribune India.

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/hcq-vitamin-tablets-help-mumbai-cops-beat-covid-19-96751

and, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines, from the newspaper article cited above

https://www.healthcareradius.in/clinical/26160-revised-icmr-advisory-on-hydroxychloroquine

The revised guidelines have now recommended the prophylactic use of HCQ for all asymptomatic healthcare workers involved in containment and treatment of COVID19 and asymptomatic healthcare workers working in non-COVID hospitals/non-COVID areas of COVID hospitals/blocks, as well as asymptomatic frontline workers, such as surveillance workers deployed in containment zones and paramilitary/police personnel involved in COVID-19 related activities, asymptomatic household contacts of laboratory confirmed cases.

The above quote comes from the actual ICMR guidelines for prophylaxis (a 4 page pdf) the link of which is below.

https://www.icmr.gov.in/pdf/covid/techdoc/V5_Revised_advisory_on_the_use_of_HCQ_SARS_CoV2_infection.pdf

HCQ is not available in Texas. The governor has prohibited its use for COVID. On Thursday, I asked my physician for a prophylactic dose as recommended by ICMR, and he said he could not give me one.

President Trump liked HCQ and recommended its use in public health care policy. Drs Fauci's and Birx' did not and so HCQ was not a vital part in health care policy as it was in India. Public health policy in the various states has primarily followed CDC guidelines (Fauci and Birx). Gov Cuomo tied up all of the HCQ in NYS.  Michigan Governor Whitmer threatened doctors who prosecution in March if they prescribed it. The FDA has pulled its emergency use authorization on June 15, 2020, because of "cardiac" complications. The Media has frightened the populace with scare stories, but ask any physician when was the last patient in whom they saw the cardiac complications in their less-than-healthy/chonically ill lupus patients.

Ironically for Gov Whitmer, Henry Ford Hospital showed HCQ lowered death rates. (A CNN news article)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/health/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-detroit-study/index.html

Other large countries with very low death rates for COVID include Indonesia and Malaysia.

Here is a Reuters article via US News about HCQ use in Indonesia (Population 273M and COVID death rate of 17 per million)

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-05-26/exclusive-indonesia-major-advocate-of-hydroxychloroquine-told-by-who-to-stop-using-it

Finally jknezek, "propaganda"?  Why the ad hominem attack?  I have elaborated on the sources that the blogger used for the article, and provided more to make the case.

The failure of the health care policy by Drs Fauci and Birx has not been due to the widespread use of HCQ for treatment and prophylaxis as the President who have wanted.

In the meantime, the FDA has approved the $3000/dose remdesivir for Coronavirus, which will not save more lives. (It will only shorten hospital stays from 15 to 11 days)

The FDA has also given a $2B contract to Pfizer for a coronavirus vaccine that

"... would need to be at least 50% more effective than a placebo in preventing or at least decreasing the severity of COVID-19 in order for the Food and Drug Administration to approve it, the agency said Tuesday."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/06/30/fda-coronavirus-vaccine-would-have-least-50-effective/5349964002/

Note the attendant insider trading that lines the pockets of those in the know with good connections to the FDA.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/business/coronavirus-vaccine-profits-vaxart.html

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Clark University, Mount Holyoke College, UMass Boston and Dartmouth are most likely to 'perish,' according to new analysis

Lots of D3 names mentioned in a blog post by Scott Galloway, a NYU Marketing professor.  He categorized 436 US News & World Report Colleges according to Thrive- Survive- Struggle- Perish.

https://www.masslive.com/news/2020/07/clark-university-mount-holyoke-college-umass-boston-and-dartmouth-are-most-likely-to-perish-according-to-new-analysis.html

Went through and I counted 169 D3 schools in the list... here were their listings

Thrive: Amherst College, Birmingham Southern College, Bowdoin College, California Institute of Technology, Carleton College, Colby College, Gallaudet University, Hamilton College, Harvey Mudd College, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Middlebury College, Pomona College, Rhodes College, Rowan University, Swarthmore College, Union College, Washington and Lee University, Washington University in St Louis, Westminster College (PA), Williams College

Survive: Bates College, Bryn Mawr College, Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western Reserve University, Claremont McKenna College, CUNY City College, Emory University, Grinnell College, Haverford College, Montclair State University, New York University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rutgers University-Camden, Rutgers University-Newark, Stevens Institute of Technology, SUNY Buffalo State, Tufts University, University of Chicago, University of Massachusetts-Boston, University of Minnesota-Morris, University of Rochester, Vassar College, Wellesley College, Wesleyan University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Struggle: Albion College, Allegheny College, Austin College, Berea College, Catholic University of America, Centenary College of Louisiana, Central College, Centre College, Chatham University, Clarkson University, Coe College, Colorado College, Concordia University-Wisconsin, Connecticut College, Elizabethtown College, Emory & Henry College, Gettysburg College, Goucher College, Guilford College, Gustavus Adolphus College, Hampden-Sydney College, Hanover College, Hartwick College, Hendrix College, Hobart William Smith Colleges, Hope College, Houghton College, Illinois College, Illinois Wesleyan University, Juniata College, Kalamazoo College, Lesley University, Lewis & Clark College, Lycoming College, Mary Baldwin University, Millsaps College,
Misericordia University, Monmouth College, Moravian College, Muhlenberg College, Occidental College, Randolph College, Randolph-Macon College, Ripon College, Roanoke College, Saint John Fisher College, Saint Johns University, Saint Norbert College, Saint Vincent College, Salem College, Scripps College, Sewanee - The University of the South, Shenandoah University, Simpson College, Southwestern University, St Olaf College, Susquehanna University, Sweet Briar College, Transylvania University, University of Puget Sound, University of Saint Joseph (CT), University of St Thomas, Ursinus College, Wabash College, Warren Wilson College, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington College, Wells College, Wesleyan College, Western New England University, Westminster College, Wheaton College (IL), Whitman College, Whittier College, Widener University, Wittenberg University

Perish: Augustana College, Bard College, Beloit College, Bethel University, Brandeis University, Chapman University, Clark University, Concordia College at Moorhead, Cornell College, Covenant College, Denison University, DePauw University, Dickinson College, Drew University, Earlham College, Franklin and Marshall College, Franklin College, George Fox University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Kenyon College, Knox College, Lake Forest College, Lawrence University, Luther College, Macalester College, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Mount Holyoke College, Oberlin College, Ohio Wesleyan University, Pacific University, Pitzer College, Sarah Lawrence College, Skidmore College, Smith College, St Lawrence University, The College of Saint Scholastica, The College of Wooster, The Sage Colleges, Trinity College (CT), University of California-Santa Cruz, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, University of New England, Wartburg College, Wilkes University, Willamette University, Yeshiva University


Interesting for the Claremont colleges... Harvey Mudd and Pomona are Thrive, Claremont McKenna is Survive, Scripps is Struggle, and Pitzer is Perish

[Gregory Sager]

Thanks for pulling them out and listing them here, Griz. Could you edit the list by differentiating by state the schools that share a name with other D3 schools, though?

I'm looking at the list and I see Westminster, Trinity, Wheaton, and St. Joseph that fall into that category, and there may be others.