re: Positive News: Another Dr. Touts Success of Hydroxychloroquine

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I eagerly look forward to his published, double blind, randomized controlled trial showing this data.

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The French study looked at viral clearance from the nares, an essentially worthless metric. We need mortality data/patient oriented outcomes, as well as proof of safety, to make better clinical decisions.

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You are parroting the worthless crap from the Twitter keyboard scientists.

Do you really think a double blind study is required to show efficacy? If you are introducing a new long term drug trial it might be... not for an already established drug with a 50 year track record. The amount of positive data relative to a control group can be so overwhelming that there is no need to go through a double blind study.

This doctor is one of the best infectious disease doctors in the world... are you a doctor? Do you publish papers on treating infectious disease? I could care less whether or not his study was airtight... it was a way to measure objectively. Do you know how common it is for an active virus like this to disappear from the nasal cavity and not everywhere else?

Tell me, is NY which is currently doing a much larger trial right now with this treatment regimen doing a double blind study?

My non-medical guess based on all of the anecdotes coming out is that around 90-95% of patients who start treatment before they are in the critical stage will see a real improvement.