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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Turns out, it makes things worse

https://apnews.com/a5077c7227b8eb8b0dc23423c0bbe2b2[/quote]

"do no harm"

Well, we have known for decades the GOP doesn't care about our veterans or really the troops in general, just pawns on a chessboard, but this is an abomination.

How can military families support this party?[/quote]

Results were not peer reviewed, no data on how two groups were matched for age, severity or underlying conditions, 368 people  in trial.  No p values, statistical analysis. Not enough data. there should be several other starting points and endpoints discussed, such as avoiding intubation, time between symptoms and initiating drug, time when symptoms resolved, severity of illness when therapy was initiated, viral load, as well as mortality.  This data is just as bad the initial trials supporting use. AND You’re  the same as trump for spreading this kind of study garbage.  There should be many, robust data trials coming out soon, where n is > 10,000.[/quote]

Hopefully you were just as adamant when "the French studies" were being touted everywhere.

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Medicine generally operates on evidence based criteria.  We are not neophytes in this game.  We were looking at the French data very critically.  However, as research began to appear to suggest that one of the causes of severe illness could be a viral attack on heme porphyrins, destroying the ability of hemoglobins to carry oxygen, while at the same time causing a cytokine storm inflaming the lungs, both the anti-inflammatory and heme protective properties of hydroxychloroquine did not make it an unreasonable candidate.  Many other drug candidates were being considered also in addition to novel antivirals, such Actemra and even colchicine.  Well executed double blind controlled studies are not available, so data out of this pandemic will be difficult to interpret. However,  I believe risk to benefit justified studying hydroxychloroquine, which is different than endorsing it.[/quote]

did anyone say it wasn’t warranted to study hydroxychloroquine? No, they did not. Try again. [/quote]

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