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Thank you for the link.  I can see why people are questioning the study.


In addition to just being super small and nowhere near statistically significant, there are a few glaring things that stand out.

The study started with 42 participants: 26 getting hydroxychloroquine and 16 control.  The results are calculated based on only 20 of the patients getting treatment, though.  They lost 6 treatment patients after the start of the study because:

3 were transferred to the ICU
1 died
1 quit the study because of nausea
1 left the hospital and dropped out

That's not to say that maybe the ICU & dead patients wouldn't have gotten to that point if they had started the treatment earlier, but those results seem like a pretty important caveat.

Then you have things like the fact that HALF of the control group was 23 or younger, including about 1/3 of the control group 16 and younger (16, 14, 12, and two 10-year-olds).  The test group only had 25% below the age of 40.

I am glad we are testing the treatment and I hope with all my being that this (or something else) works - and very soon.  But I am nowhere near hanging my hat on this particular study "proving" that this will be an effective treatment.

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Posted: 03/25/2020 at 11:09AM



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