- Fri Apr 10, 2020 11:02 am
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"In the 4 weeks Fauci has been turning up his nose at HCQ, Didier Raoult, MD, PhD, has been testing it on 1000 patients.
Great results."-johnfibs
"Benjamin Davido, MD, an infectious disease specialist at Raymond-Poincaré Hospital in Garches, Paris, spoke in an interview about the implications of these new results.
What do you think about the new results presented by Prof. Raoult’s team? Do they confirm the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine?
These results are complementary [to the original results] but don’t offer any new information or new statistical evidence. They are absolutely superimposable and say overall that, between 5 and 7 days [of treatment], very few patients shed the virus. But that is not the question that everyone is asking.
Even if we don’t necessarily have to conduct a randomized study, we should at least compare the treatment, either against another therapy – which could be hydroxychloroquine monotherapy, or just standard of care. It needed an authentic control arm.
To recruit 80 patients so quickly, the researchers probably took people with essentially ambulatory forms of the disease (there was a call for screening in the south of France) – therefore, by definition, less severe cases.
But to describe such a population of patients as going home and saying, “There were very few hospitalizations and it is going well,” does not in any way prove that the treatment reduces hospitalizations."
Yeah, johnny "Great results" Essentially no results at all.
But definitely good enough for 'Dr.' Trump to continue to prescribe HCQ to the general populace.
I continue to say Trump's biggest mistake was closing the White House office Obama put in place to deal with pandemic response, which closure is a YUGE spot on the Trump Administration and is costing thousands of American lives.