Subj : Re: Hydroxychloroquine is not effective against COVID-19
To   : Dan Cross
From : Dan Cross
Date : Wed Apr 22 2020 12:46 pm

On 11 Apr 2020 at 09:45a, Dan Cross pondered and said...

DC> On 09 Apr 2020 at 06:31p, Gregory Deyss pondered and said...
DC>  GD> Where as your assertion is not remotely logical, which is, she would
DC>  GD> gotten better all by herself by doing nothing. It is ludicrous to eve
DC>  GD> debate with me over this. We have all seen that this virus is a beast
DC>  GD> that kills, as it has already killed thousands, but there you sit smu
DC>  GD> and determined to be right. I did not say these things, this is what
DC>  GD> woman has declared. I know that burns your ass so badly you can hardl
DC>  GD> wait to respond, of which is very ignorant.
DC>
DC> Yes, it kills; indiscriminately even.  But between 1%
DC> and 3% of those who contract it.
DC>
DC> But there's no evidence that hydroxychloroquine is an
DC> effective treatment for it.  If you have actual evidence,
DC> by all means share it.  If it's _actual_ evidence and
DC> it's been verified, I'll admit I'm wrong.

And now we have a randomized controlled trial with some
data about this.  The results are sad: the group that
took hydroxychloroquine had a 28% fatality rate versus
12% in the control group.  There was no difference in
who needed a ventilator, though a group given both
hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin did have lower
ventilation rates, but 22% fatality rate.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v1.full.pdf

An earlier study out of Brazil studying the efects
of chloroquine was partially halted after 25% of
participants were observed showing signs of heart
arrhythmia.

https://apnews.com/f69fd1607a097d8a55bb1ad9fff78e7b

So yeah.  Dr Trump's magic snakeoil is not only
ineffective, it's lethal.

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