Looks like HCQ has finally bit the dust as a useful COVID-19 treatment.
The professional researchers are tearing the retrospective meta-data drug studies a new one as data from all the big person science starts to come in!
There is a strong possibility some or all uses of other anti-viral drugs will go the same way, nearly all of them have been proposed out of retrospective meta-data analysis, which means none of the publish reports are based on randomised and controlled trials, and all of those studies are completely retrospectively observational. The problem is that in the retrospective studies the reason for giving HCQ(or any other drug), combined with the method of selecting the patients, basically introduces a biased which delivers the drug a booster result.
Many such 'cures" are promoted for use due to political issues rather than drug efficacy.
This leaves, shock horror, the two most useful tools in the COVID-19 fight as Remdesivir and PCR, the two things the health professionals have turned to from day one!
- No Remdesivir doesn't implant chips in your veins or your brain.
- Yes, despite not being 100% accurate, PCR is still the most accurate diagnostic method we have but it's slow (2-3 days) and costly per test.
The professional researchers are tearing the retrospective meta-data drug studies a new one as data from all the big person science starts to come in!
There is a strong possibility some or all uses of other anti-viral drugs will go the same way, nearly all of them have been proposed out of retrospective meta-data analysis, which means none of the publish reports are based on randomised and controlled trials, and all of those studies are completely retrospectively observational. The problem is that in the retrospective studies the reason for giving HCQ(or any other drug), combined with the method of selecting the patients, basically introduces a biased which delivers the drug a booster result.
Many such 'cures" are promoted for use due to political issues rather than drug efficacy.
This leaves, shock horror, the two most useful tools in the COVID-19 fight as Remdesivir and PCR, the two things the health professionals have turned to from day one!
- No Remdesivir doesn't implant chips in your veins or your brain.
- Yes, despite not being 100% accurate, PCR is still the most accurate diagnostic method we have but it's slow (2-3 days) and costly per test.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"