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Originally Posted by blueash

Nice try, didn't miss it

New study on Hydroxychloroquine with Azithromycin, failure

I specifically noted this positive study

Thanks for playing

Thanks for playing? Are we teenagers now?

Let's see how you "specifically noted this positive study"

First of all, you made a comment about it in a post titled "New study on hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin, failure"

So lets look at your comments about this "positive" study:

And today a new study. This out of China so some of you don't believe anything out of China can ignore this one, unless of course it fits your preconceived ideas.

What a nice snarky positive introduction! Most of us don't believe the Chinese government, their Doctors are another matter, especially since many of them keep getting disappeared.

This study was randomized with a control group. It has not been peer reviewed. It was done on patients with mild disease, not severe disease.

I don't know about you, I'd rather be cured before going on the ventilator.

So this is not a study of HCQ, rather it is a study of HCQ given with antivirals, antibacterials, immunoglobin, and sometimes steroids. Keep the findings clear in your mind that therefore this study does not show that HCQ by itself benefits. Only that HCQ when added to all those other interventions shows benefit.

That's strange, the team of Doctors who made this study titled it "Efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19: results of a randomized clinical trial"

You better let them know.

You keep arguing against a strawman, nobody that I read about is saying "Hydroxychloroquine is the cure! Take it and we're saved! All Doctors that I know of are using it in combination with other drugs. All the patients in this study got the same drugs, except the control group did not receive hydroxychloroquine. None of the HCQ recipients died, while 4 in the control group did. HCQ recipients also statistically improved faster for coughs and fevers. I did not see a p value for the pneumonia results, just their comment in results:

"Surprisingly, a larger proportion of patients with improved pneumonia in the HCQ treatment group (80.6%, 25 of 31) compared with the control group (54.8%, 17 of 31). Besides, 61.3% of patients in the HCQ treatment group had a significant pneumonia absorption."

Sounds like a pretty good study, with good results. If you promoted the good ones equally to the failures, then I might believe you are unbiased.