Posted on 04/22/2020 5:06:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This week the Washington Post published a study that made the media downright giddy. A study on Veterans Affairs patients concluded that hydroxychloroquine was not all it's cracked up to be, as more COVID-19 patients died on the drug than not.
“An association of increased overall mortality was identified in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine alone,” the study concluded. “These findings highlight the importance of awaiting the results of ongoing prospective, randomized, controlled studies before widespread adoption of these drugs.”
The reason so many reporters jumped on the study and confronted the White House task force with it, is because President Trump has been promoting the anti-malaria drug as a possible treatment for the coronavirus. So of course the media had to prove him wrong.
But, as it turns out, that study is not all it's cracked up to be. There are a few factors that the media should pay more attention to.
"It's not a clinical study," Wilike explained. "It was done on a small number of veterans. Sadly, those who were in the last stages of life, and the drug was given to them."
Veterans Affairs’ Robert Wilkie on yesterday’s hydroxychloroquine study: "That’s an observational study. It’s not a clinical study ... We know the drug has been working on middle-age and younger veterans. And the gov of NY was just in the Oval Office yesterday asking for more" pic.twitter.com/uMRx6Z22Yh— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April 22, 2020
He was quick to note that, as the president has said, HCQ has been showing positive results in some patients.
"We know the drug has been working on middle age and younger veterans...working in stopping the progression of the disease," Wilkie explained.
Some Democrats haven't been afraid to note the health benefits of HCQ. At the White House on Tuesday Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked for more shipments of the drug for New York City. And Democratic Michigan State Representative Karen Whitsett said that President Trump may very well have saved her life because it wasn't until he started touting the benefits of HCQ that she thought to give it a try. She had been experiencing a very severe case of COVID-19, but started to feel better just a few hours after her doctor administered HCQ.
Democrats and their media wingmen want to keep a drug out of the hands of people who could benefit by it just to stick it to Trump. These people are evil.
So the gov of NY wants more?? Trump has the supply, we know that. THAT’S why Cuomo came...on his knees. Cuomo owes Trump and the people of NY big time for being an ignorant pr***.
RE: So the gov of NY wants more??
Why does Cuomo want more seeing that he is restricting its use only to hospitals supervised by the state.
But But according to the commie media the drug doesnt work but messiah Cuomo wants more, how can that be
Liberals’ “war on antimalarial drug” is getting ridiculous.
Quite a few NYC Covid victims died on ventilators in hospitals , does it mean ventilators and hospitals are useless?
According to liberals’ logic, hospitals failed to save the lives of those unfortunate critically-ill veterans, so hospitals are completely useless.
FYI
How many have cancelled their commie newsfeeds cause they are unreliable? How many have cancelled espn cause of their “wokeness”? when the masses start doing that there will be less of this uneducated bigmouth “journalism”
Now is the perfect time. The excuse is...”because I cannot afford it” I dont have any of thos subscriptions...so I cannot cancel. Would love to see those propagandists out of business.
No zinc.
There is no way they could not know to add the zinc.
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They intentionally didn’t do the cocktail. And from I can tell they only gave it to their ‘last resort’ patients. Meaning, they set the ‘test’ up for failure.
Boom ... won’t see the Marxist State Media pimps and whores highlighting this statement.
>>Meaning, they set the ‘test’ up for failure.<<
The doctors weren’t doing a “test”. They were just treating patients.
The study involved researchers going through thousands of VA records looking for patients who had been treated with HCQ or HCQ and zithro and then comparing them with a group that wasn’t. Nothing was planned in advance. It was a retrospective study, i.e., done after the treatment was accomplished. In other words, nothing in the study dictated the treatment parameters.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3837966/posts
small excerpt from the posted link:
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Didier raoult @raoult_didier
The study published in pre-print on 04/21 on Medrxiv by Maganoli et al has three major biases which invalidate its conclusions, in any case absurd and incompatible with the literature. We have detailed these biases in the letter below.
https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/response-to-magagnoli-medrxiv-2020/
Response to Magagnoli, MedRxiv, 2020 Matthieu MILLION
https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Response-to-Magagnoli.pdf
Thanks.
I read the whole report earlier today and the only thing that is clear is that these were very sick men with numerous other serious medical problems who had little to lose by trying it. It is shameful, after they served their country, for anyone to use their deaths to demean the Commander in Chief.
It’s the zinc.
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