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Originally Posted by blueash
What a terrible idea to have an expert in statistics be part of the team that is doing a statistical evaluation. Should I conclude from your belief that statisticians are there to create false conclusions that any paper that does not have a qualified statistician is better? I am sure had this paper not had one you would opine "Where is the statistics expert? The data is not reliable unless proper statistical analysis was done"
If you are here to accuse Joseph Magagnoli of fudging the data, please at least have the guts to directly accuse him and not just suggest it with no evidence.
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From the VA
A spokeswoman for the Department of Veterans Affairs said that the research findings should not be seen as definitive. "This was not a clinical trial. It is simply an analysis of retrospective data regarding hospitalized patients," she told Fox News, via email. "The findings should not be viewed as definitive because the analysis doesn’t adjust for patients’ clinical status and showed that hydroxychloroquine alone was provided to VA’s sickest COVID-19 patients, many times as a last resort."
From the report itself
BACKGROUND:
Despite limited and conflicting data on the use of hydroxychloroquine in patients with Covid-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the emergency use of this drug when clinical trials are unavailable or infeasible. Hydroxychloroquine, alone or in combination with azithromycin, is being widely used in Covid-19 therapy based on anecdotal and limited observational evidence.
This sounds like it was written by CNN. Credible reports are started off with more neutral language and then provide conclusions with just the facts.
Other issues that have been raised is that it was based on patients who had already been intubated and the study was not peer reviewed as of April 21. Proponents all say that it has limited benefits in late stages.
It also neglected to mention the use of another drug on those who did not receive HCQ.
There are several reasons to suspect this report was not credible enough to justify its bombastic coverage.