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Originally Posted by blueash
You are absolutely correct about that. The trend is that the recent are showing no benefit. That trend may reverse or may not. You posted that I have omitted positive results and posted a study details. I then showed you that I did post about that study in detail. And I have posted about the initial French study. I am not saying there may not be more studies I may have missed. That is going to happen if it has not already.
When a new study appears that shows benefit I now promise you I will start a new thread rather than include that study in an existing thread. Does that make you happier?
I would like HCQ to work. It is cheap, it is mostly available, it is generic, its side effect profile is well known, the specific monitoring needs are established. You don't seem to believe that is my hope, but it is. IMO it is being promoted as a near certain cure by one segment of our country without science based evidence to support that near certainty. When someone says I hear this works, it's great, you should take this, then perhaps throws in a maybe, maybe not, that is not a balanced presentation. That's an endorsement with a caveat.
The science is not endorsing this drug with or without other medications. And talking heads on TV or online should not be suggesting that the science is clearly pointing in one direction, or the other. I will continue to look for studies. I don't know the best evidence conclusion yet. I welcome your continued input. I look forward to you perhaps even finding and posting a negative result once.
Remember when you used to hear the phrase "fair and balanced" I think my approach re HCQ has been both. YMMV
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Yes, that will make me happy. In your comment about the Chinese study with control group, you Implied it didn't mean anything because other drugs were involved. Pretty much every study involves a cocktail of drugs. The difference from the two groups was HCQ, and the HCQ group did better, no deaths, faster improvement.
Do you actually think because you know who said things like "It may or may not work" "I'm not a doctor" and "I may take it, I'll have to ask my doctors" that 1000s of Doctors are now prescribing HCQ in combination with other drugs all over the world? That's basically saying all these doctors actually treating covid 19 are complete dummies.