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00 Hoo

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The first French "study" was terribly flawed.


It was based on 20 hydroxychloroquine-treated patients plus 16 "control" patients.

But that ignores that they started with 26 hydroxychloroquine-treated patients.  6 didn't finish the study (23%!) because they transferred to the ICU, died, or dropped out because of side effects.  That's kind of important information to ignore.

Then you had fun things with their "study" design.  For example, a full 25% of the "control" group was kids aged 10-14 who had no symptoms of COVID-19.

I'm not going to bother reading the same guy's new study because the first one was so bad there's no reason to expect the second one to have any validity.

Essentially the awful French study got promoted on Fox News, Trump picked it up and in his desperation for this all to turn around started touting it as a miracle cure.  I am glad we are properly testing it, and I very much hope this or something else is found to work very soon, but actual evidence of its effectiveness does not exist yet.

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Posted: 03/30/2020 at 4:39PM



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  The first French "study" was terribly flawed. -- 00 Hoo 03/30/2020 4:39PM
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