No, we have a contingent here on Free Republic who will insist that the effects of hydroxychloroquine on Wu Flu are anecdotal until the day they die.
Piles of bodies in the streets are just around the corner.
Blah blah blah.
I sometimes wish that medicine used the latin term for anecdote. This is a case of the language meaning significantly different things in technical versus common English.
Both sides are right, and both are wrong.
It all comes down to an overloaded term.
To that contingent, if you were suffering from severe Coronavirus symptoms, would you refuse the HCQ, Z-pack and Zinc treatment because you are unimpressed with “anecdotal evidence”?
FReegards MrEdd and others!
I think that maybe there is a misunderstanding of how the term is being used. But I will absolutely agree the evidence is anecdotal until the double blind trial is done. You are not expected to use that word when referring to this recipe once you hear that the trial succeeds. Usually it is only a few days anyway between the submission of the paper and the peer review and acceptance (of the paper).
There are two ways to get doctors to accept using a drug regimen. Lab evidence and anecdotal. Even after it is accepted they will still share stories with each other and complaints about side effects and unexpected effects.
If you guys show me that the term “anecdotal evidence” is being understood by doctors and clinicians to mean, made up, not true, I will stand corrected.
Also realize that CQ failed in ferrets and guinea pigs with influenza and HIV(?) after it had worked in the dish. The Chinese doctors tried HCQ with nothing to go on but hope. And they saw the effect. Put it straight into patients, and people got better. It don’t happen that way in the US!
Dr. Zelenko has it right, pretty close enough, and the anecdotes are being published and people are staking their reputations on the stories they tell.
I wish it worked perfectly.
I wish everybody had enough of it.
I wish every doctor believed in it.
I wish we knew everything about it.
....(sigh)