I also posted in the different thread. I don’t want people to be discouraged by misinformation.
The recent study of HCQ/ HCQ+A-Z vs No tx study from From VA hospital on the news is a chart review. Chart review is something you do as a student because it’s just counting numbers of past event. It’s almost impossible to delineate cause and effect. If you read the “chart review” on medrxiv.org, (I don’t call it a study because nothing was studied)., they themselves admit that HCQ or HCQ+A-Z was used for sicker patients.....
Discouraging HCQ use based on this study Is like telling you cancer meds kills more people, so don’t use them at all while it’s the cancer that kills people not the meds. I’ll be very interested to see how all the academic professors interpret the results. They will usually laugh at these chart reviews. Interestingly the lead authors are ophthalmologists. Eye doctors...they might be all furloughed due to lack of elective cases.
Yes. I read some of their chart review and it contains language to the effect that "as expected, the patients who were given hydroxychloroquine had a higher mortality rate because the hydroxychloroquine was given to the sickest patients." This is more fake news.
They're also probably the most unhealthy group of people as well. My mom works at the VA and the older generation that served in Vietnam has so much weird shit on top of the usual obesity, smoking, drugs, and heavy drinking issues. They're also not using zinc from what I read on the covid-19 sub. I'm glad they're trying it out but why not throw the cheapest part in there as well?
When you say "HCQ+A-Z" the -Z means (no supplement given/unknown level of in patient's bloodstream) zinc? Knowing what the actual mechanism is, wouldn't failure to assess/include sufficient zinc in a trial be sailing close to malpractice land? Or even wrongful death suit land?
Sorry A-Z is auto corrected, I meant azithromycin. No zinc was added in this study. I do know know enough to comment on zinc efficacy except that it seems to work well for me when I have some upper respiratory infection. (Very anecdotal, haha)
I also posted in the different thread. I don’t want people to be discouraged by misinformation. The recent study of HCQ/ HCQ+A-Z vs No tx study from From VA hospital on the news is a chart review. Chart review is something you do as a student because it’s just counting numbers of past event. It’s almost impossible to delineate cause and effect. If you read the “chart review” on medrxiv.org, (I don’t call it a study because nothing was studied)., they themselves admit that HCQ or HCQ+A-Z was used for sicker patients..... Discouraging HCQ use based on this study Is like telling you cancer meds kills more people, so don’t use them at all while it’s the cancer that kills people not the meds. I’ll be very interested to see how all the academic professors interpret the results. They will usually laugh at these chart reviews. Interestingly the lead authors are ophthalmologists. Eye doctors...they might be all furloughed due to lack of elective cases.
Yes. I read some of their chart review and it contains language to the effect that "as expected, the patients who were given hydroxychloroquine had a higher mortality rate because the hydroxychloroquine was given to the sickest patients." This is more fake news.
They're also probably the most unhealthy group of people as well. My mom works at the VA and the older generation that served in Vietnam has so much weird shit on top of the usual obesity, smoking, drugs, and heavy drinking issues. They're also not using zinc from what I read on the covid-19 sub. I'm glad they're trying it out but why not throw the cheapest part in there as well?
When you say "HCQ+A-Z" the -Z means (no supplement given/unknown level of in patient's bloodstream) zinc? Knowing what the actual mechanism is, wouldn't failure to assess/include sufficient zinc in a trial be sailing close to malpractice land? Or even wrongful death suit land?
Sorry A-Z is auto corrected, I meant azithromycin. No zinc was added in this study. I do know know enough to comment on zinc efficacy except that it seems to work well for me when I have some upper respiratory infection. (Very anecdotal, haha)