Posted: 30 July 2020 at 2:04pm | IP Logged | 2
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Weren't there 6 studies done across 4 different countries? |
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More.
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Isn't a potential cure worth considering? |
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Yes.
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Why are their findings the exact opposite of what the FDA is now saying? Why did the FDA approve it and then revoke it? I mean, did they not do any testing or confirmation before approving? |
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The FDA did not approve it. They granted an Emergency Use Authorization, which allows the use of unapproved drugs in emergency situations. They revoked it because proper clinical trials were showing that at best it did nothing and at worst it was causing cardiac issues in patients.
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Do you feel there is no merit in the studies because of the one person involved? Do all the doctors in the group all believe all the claims put in the journal over the years? Are they always wrong or are there examples of things they got right too? |
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I wasn't speaking to the merit of the studies; I was speaking to the AAPS's advocacy of them. They are not a scientific or medical advocacy group; they are a political organization of conservative doctors. And it's obvious in the instances I cited that they placed politics over science.
As for the studies themselves, taking the Henry Ford Health System study for example:
- That study was observational, not a controlled trial - It was not a blind trial - The patients selected for treatment were not randomized, the hydroxychloroquine + azithroymycin treatment was reserved for patients with minimal cardiac risk factors - The study did not control for steroid use, and according to their data, the patients in the HCQ and HCQ + AZ groups were administered steroids at twice the rate that the no medicine and AZ only groups did. This is important because recent studies have shown that the steroid dexamethasone does have a benefit for severely ill COVID patients. - The study excluded 267 patients who had not been discharged. If those patients were not discharged because they were still sick after receiving treatment, that skews the data
Meanwhile, the controlled clinical trials had to stop because of safety issues.
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