Nicotine will be found to help fight coronavirus

Created by evand on 2020-04-26; known on 2021-04-26; judged wrong by evand on 2021-04-26.

• evand estimated 3% on 2020-04-26
• batemancapital estimated 10% on 2020-04-27
• Tumblewood estimated 1% on 2020-04-27
• PseudonymousUser estimated 1% on 2020-04-30
• qznc estimated 3% on 2020-05-01
• credunkist estimated 0% on 2020-05-03
• wizzwizz4 estimated 1% and said “I can’t even think of a mechanism. In fact, I reckon it makes things worse.” on 2020-05-08
• wizzwizz4 estimated 2% and said “Thought of a mechanism by which it could help. Still think it makes things worse.” on 2020-05-09
• Medea estimated 5% on 2020-05-10
• NickN estimated 3% and said “It seems smokers don’t get infected as easily. But I do not think it will be followed up, because smoking = bad. So, nicotine might or might not help fight the virus, but my prediction is that it certainly will not be found to do so.” on 2020-08-16
• evand estimated 1% and said “Nothing new; therefore less likely.” on 2021-02-14
• evand   judged this prediction wrong on 2021-04-26.