I am all for HCQ and it sounds like it's really effective, but I don't know how they can claim a 99.5% cure rate. Wouldn't most of those patients have cleared the virus on their own naturally? What matters is how many more people survive when taking HCQ compared to the mortality rate when HCQ is not administered. Am I missing something?
Going off of data supplied by other comments (assuming it's accurate):
France currently has a 10% fatality rate
The study has a 0.5% fatality rate so far, with a maximum potential fatality rate of 1.5%
If you use France's entire population as a control and extrapolate these numbers out, you're looking at reducing otherwise-fatal cases by somewhere between 85% and 95% without taking other variables into account.
This is good news for sure, but the data I would love to have is what effect does it have compared the following things...
doing nothing,
doing things like IV vitamin C and other drugs,
taking it early when symptoms first present vs taking it when you are on serious decline,
Basically, I just want to know if it helps a little bit vs a medium bit vs a huge bit, and if when it is given matters at all
There's a big study starting in PA to recruit a couple thousand people who were exposed to the virus but do not yet have symptoms, to see if giving HCQ vs. "placebo" Vitamin C (which isn't really a placebo, but anyhoo...) prevents infections.
I am all for HCQ and it sounds like it's really effective, but I don't know how they can claim a 99.5% cure rate. Wouldn't most of those patients have cleared the virus on their own naturally? What matters is how many more people survive when taking HCQ compared to the mortality rate when HCQ is not administered. Am I missing something?
Going off of data supplied by other comments (assuming it's accurate):
If you use France's entire population as a control and extrapolate these numbers out, you're looking at reducing otherwise-fatal cases by somewhere between 85% and 95% without taking other variables into account.
Thanks for the breakdown!
This is good news for sure, but the data I would love to have is what effect does it have compared the following things...
doing nothing, doing things like IV vitamin C and other drugs, taking it early when symptoms first present vs taking it when you are on serious decline,
Basically, I just want to know if it helps a little bit vs a medium bit vs a huge bit, and if when it is given matters at all
There's a big study starting in PA to recruit a couple thousand people who were exposed to the virus but do not yet have symptoms, to see if giving HCQ vs. "placebo" Vitamin C (which isn't really a placebo, but anyhoo...) prevents infections.