>>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