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Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients

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Re: Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients

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TLDR: French publication, non randomized 181 patients (hospitalized with pneumonia and O2 requirement) with control group (84 with HCQ, 97 without HCQ), no efficacy but adverse effects for some.

All the HQC results other than the heart problems (a known side effect) were slightly better, just not enough so to be statistically significant, I guess.

Re: Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients

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TLDR: French publication, non randomized 181 patients (hospitalized with pneumonia and O2 requirement) with control group (84 with HCQ, 97 without HCQ), no efficacy but adverse effects for some.

According to Dr. Raoul - If the virus is no longer active indeed it doesn't help, but they already know that.

Re: Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients

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Totally out of my depth here. I've been following Dr. Chris Martenson's daily covid-19 updates since late January. He is adamant this treatment is only effective in combination with zinc supplements.

I’d look at clinical trials for zinc in other drug combinations and also alone. They’re not promising unless your population has a zinc deficiency.

Re: Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients

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Totally out of my depth here. I've been following Dr. Chris Martenson's daily covid-19 updates since late January. He is adamant this treatment is only effective in combination with zinc supplements.

So why doesn't this guy setup clinical trials instead of providing non-confirmed medical advice on the daily?

Probably cause he is lazy and more interested in selling and promoting himself than he is actually solving problems.

This guy knows the scientific method, I assume. he knows that something needs to be observable and replicated. Instead, he is asking us to trust his brilliance on something where the side effect might be death and blindness??

Re: Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients

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Point is that the study is done at the wrong stage, too late.

Point is far too much time and money has been wasted chasing this particular goose just because your cult leader saw it as the silver bullet that could save his re-election.

I hope we don’t waste additional bandwidth in the medical community just to disprove additional no-true-Scotsmen rewritings of history. Just this comment section already features two of them: “too late”, and “only in combination with zinc”.

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