The Chinese have REFUSED to publish their data for others to review. They have published a SUMMARY of it, but they don't release the full data for others to review and recreate their work. That is HIGHLY suspect for poor quality data.
I'm an M.D., Ph.D. Literally your tax dollars were spent to train me for medical research just like this.
I would LOVE for HCQ to be a panacea here, but the data do not at this time support that conclusion, and our fearless leader made things worse by advocating for the drug on extremely poor studies. Go back through all 400 pages of this thread, you will see that I actually break down each and every study on HCQ in various posts here.
The substance at this time, does not match the hype.
Regarding the use of HCQ, we continue to see reports from physicians actually prescribing the product that the results are very positive. Specifically, if HCQ (particularly in combination with zinc and azithromycin) is given to CV19 patients early, it noticeably reduces the number of patients to ultimately require hospitalization.
Here's the latest article:
Italy Finally Starts Mass Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine
In the article, Dr. Pier Luigi Bartoletti, Deputy National Secretary of the Italian Federation of General Practitioners, explains that every single person with Covid-19 that has early signs, like a cough or a fever for example, is now being treated with the anti-malaria drug.
"The results that we are starting to accumulate suggest that hydroxychloroquine administered early, gives the possibility of avoiding this evolution in a majority of patients and is also helping us to prevent hospitals from filling up.”
Debate Ends Over Chloroquine as France Officially Sanctions Usage
"Days after beginning a large scale double blinded trial, the so called gold standard, France has now reached the conclusion chloroquine is recommended to treat corona."
FDA
As you also know, last week the FDA in the United States granted emergency authority to use chloroquine and HCQ that are in the national stockpile for the treatment of covid-19.
Let's keep politics out of this discussion, however. I may make a separate post about the politics of the HCQ controversy at some point, but in our discussions of whether the drug works or not for covid-19, politics has no place.
I respect your qualifications as a physician and researcher, and I hope you respect just as keenly the qualifications of the French and Italian medical authorities and the decision of the FDA doctors and researchers to make this drug available in the U.S. for treating covid-19
What we need is an honest discussion of HCQ with data points.
@bkp_duke if you have previously posted links to studies that dispute the value of HCQ , please repost because none of us has the time to go through all your old posts with the hopes of finding one. We need links to results or real world observations, not your personal summaries. Thank you.
