The breathless reporting about this is clear evidence the media is corrupt. All this demonstrates is that there is a high correlation of HCQ use and morbidity.
A little detail left out of the abstract and put on page 12, “Howwever, hydroxychloroquine, with or without azithromycin, was more likely to be prescribed to patients with more severe disease, as assessed by baseline ventilatory status and metabolic and hematologic parameters.”
Check out the comments. They’re getting shredded.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v1
They put my comments on review...and looks like the most recent comment was 8 hours ago, so I’m guessing some got pulled.
what I realized and missed the first time about this report is:
The VA’s case pull index date range is 03/09/2020-04/11/2020.
Something is not quite right with this study.
There were only 731 COVID cases identified in the U.S. on 03/08/2020.
https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily
Why was the VA using hydroxychloroquine on 03/09/2020?
Hydroxychloroquine was at most an FDA “compassionate use” drug at that time.
Makes we wonder if this study actually shows just the opposite? that more of these Vets lived because of Hydroxychloroquine?
I would like to see exactly when these 368 went into the hospital with what symptoms.