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Old 04-14-2020, 04:23 PM
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Tom Hanks and his wife took it. Hmmm......
And what does that prove to you? Science is not advanced by anecdotes. Over 80 patients took it in the above study without benefit. The evidence is still murky. It may help - it may hurt it - may do nothing. The important part of a negative report it that it disproves the claim that HCQ is a miracle that will benefit a large percentage of the ill people who receive it. That part is clearly wrong in the patient population studied. If it helps some, that evidence is not yet established or disproven.
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