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Originally Posted by blueash
Goodlife, I am starting to think you really don't care what you bring to the thread. At least have the intellectual honesty to tell the readers something about the study. Like tell them that the patients were never examined. Tell them that exactly zero were tested for COVID which means some of these people with "flu symptoms" had bacterial infections like strep or sinus or bacterial pneumonias. Does it surprise you that people with sinus infections and bacterial pneumonias might get better with antibiotics? It doesn't surprise me.
Perhaps you don't understand the meaning of NNT. It means you have to give the drugs to 28 people to have 1 person benefit. So if only one out of every 28 "sick" patients had an underlying bacterial illness this is exactly what your data should result. This study has absolutely zero meaning in treatment of COVID and by the way, these people forgot to add the zinc which is so important per your posts.
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I posted a link to the whole study. I assume people can read. Noted it was only HCQ + zithromycin.
Such intellectual dishonesty!!!
Maybe they have a shortage of tests in Brazil, or maybe they bought a load of faulty tests from China. And maybe, just like all over the USA hospitals and Doctors are treating many patients at home until they can't breathe.
Never examined? From the paper:
Chest CT was performed in 251 (60.9%) subjects in the treatment group and showed that 70.1% had COVID 19 suggestive images; 150 (59.7%) patients had mild lung involvement, 26 (10.4%) moderate and none (0%) showed severe lung compromising. Only 54 (24.1%) chest CT were performed in the control group and of those 40,7% had COVID-19 suggestive images (Table 2)
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All patients from both groups who needed hospitalization presented COVID -19 pattern at Chest CT
Some think Chest CT best for covid 19 diagnosis
CT Provides Best Diagnosis for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) | Imaging Technology News
Next? Review the links I provided above about zinc. Not all Doctors are using it, but many are and think it's important. When I said most Doctors I meant of the several I was reporting on. My mistake, as someone we know said "it happens"