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Discussion on Quora. The top answers pick NSAIDS.

An excellent question and while there's a lot scientists have yet to learn, the piece does offer a couple of constructive suggestions.

It would be great if further research confirms this.

I don't think they are all that "outlandish". But since they're from Arnold Kling they are guaranteed to be interesting. (And I think--and hope--that #1 will prove to be right on the money.)

This cheered my wife.

As Glenn Reynolds often writes, "Faster, please."

So I have read--maybe you have, too--that the point of the masks is to stop asymptomatic but infected folks from spreading the virus. Usually this claim is followed by one that states but the mask you wear won't protect you from getting the virus from someone else.

I didn't understand this. If the mask can prevent the virus from getting out, why couldn't it prevent the virus from getting in?

This piece offers a possible explanation.

In case you've missed it we now have a real good idea where a lot of the virus cases are coming from.

See also "Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Facilities Account for 42% of COVID-19 Deaths," "How States Turned Nursing Homes Into ‘Slaughter Houses’ By Forcing Them to Admit Discharged COVID-19 Patients," and "Canada’s nursing home crisis: 81 percent of coronavirus deaths are in long-term care facilities."

Only 1%?! Yet more evidence that God has a sense of humor.

Professor JoAnn Manson of Harvard Med School writes that while we need randomized clinical trials, "the evidence is becoming quite compelling".