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Originally Posted by cabmando
Doing my morning surf on MSN, I see this article
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/india-distributed-over-100-million-hcq-tablets-for-covid-19/ar-BB1dnvav?li=BBnba9O
Don't know why it was there.. haven't searched for anything HCQ related in at least 6 months and have cleared cache and browser history several times. So naturally after reading it, I have to see what was going on.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.09.20116806v3.full.pdf
" In the HCQ group 4 out of 54 participants were tested to be COVID19 positive, whereas, in the control group 20 out of 52 participants were found to be COVID19 positive. Distribution of HCQ takers and controls across outcome of COVID19 test in univariate analysis indicated the association of risk (Relative Risk = 0.193; 95% CI = 0.071-0.526; p = 0.001) of SARS-CoV-2 infection with lack of pre-exposure HCQ prophylaxis. In this study, it was seen that taking preexposure HCQ prophylaxis was associated with an 80.7% reduction in the risk of acquiring a SARS-CoV-2 infection."
I had no idea there was anything like this going on. HCQ was pretty much written off back in July/August from what I can recall. Studies were showing that it had no benefit in treatment and one (I think) showed no benefit in prevention. The study linked above was extremely small.
Interesting stuff. |
It almost seems there is a concerted effort to thwart any benefits of readily available, cheap drugs. HCQ and Ivermectin both have shown reasonable, albeit anecdotal evidence of efficacy. HCQ was touted by Trump...so, no way the media would support it even if it cured cancer.
Hard to know where reality lies even still. Because this virus was so politicized by the left...and helped them win an election last Nov, many have no faith in the honesty or reliability of COVID related information. I heard yesterday, indirectly, that there have been 24 deaths attributed to the vaccine. Don’t know if true but I know that many of us completely distrust the media to report the real news.
Edit: Uh oh...didn’t realize this wasn’t in PARF. My apologies for sharing my honest opinion as it may get this punted next door.