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Old 07-29-2020, 01:06 PM
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Here is a link, posted previously in the thread that lists 65 studies, several from July

COVID-19 Treatment - Analysis of 65 global studies showing high effectiveness for early treatment
You know that people are not going to click a link to 65 "global" studies. Perhaps you could summarize those studies for all of us. Your conclusion suggests there are 65 studies showing a high effectiveness [not sure what defines high] for HCQ.

I will await your summary. Please also let us know about how many studies have been published or pre-print on the subject of whether HCQ is beneficial. Maybe this link has listed all the data. Maybe it has listed a very few studies while ignoring all the other ones that failed to show any benefit.

Just as a teaser.. here's one study your link touted as evidence of effectiveness if given early.
Done in Brazil they recruited by telemedicine people with symptoms consistent with Covid. The recommended HCQ and AZ for all of them. Some filled the scripts, some refused. Then they looked at hospitalization rates. Covid testing was NOT DONE. The rate of hospitalization was higher in the refused group. That is garbage science. It proves nothing about Covid. It proves that sick people given an antibiotic, azithromycin, or with early malaria, HCQ get better than people who take nothing. It is absolutely certain that a number of the sick people had something other than Covid. Some had strep, some had bacterial pneumonia, some had sinusitis or bronchitis.

You offer garbage science to support your "belief" and apparently think we are unable to use our BS detectors. The most recent study on your link they call inconclusive. The authors of the study disagree. The authors of the study state that their study shows NO benefit to HCQ. So in summary, while awaiting your detailed analysis.. The authors of the link mis-categorize studies showing no benefit as neutral and promote garbage as proving benefit. I did not read all of them. But enough to see how useless your link is for proving anything beyond an agenda.
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