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TITLE: Retrospective Study Finds Hydroxychloroquine Reduced Coronavirus Death Rate
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The study analyzed 2,541 patients hospitalized among the system’s six hospitals between March 10 and May 2 and found 13% of those treated with hydroxychloroquine died while 26% of those who did not receive the drug died…
“As doctors and scientists, we look to the data for insight,” said Steven Kalkanis, CEO of the Henry Ford Medical Group. “And the data here is clear that there was a benefit to using the drug as a treatment for sick, hospitalized patients.”
The study, published in the International Society of Infectious Disease, found patients did not suffer heart-related side effects from the drug.
Cutting the death rate in half is a pretty dramatic result. The catch here is that this was not a double-blind, randomized study in which patients were assigned to various treatment groups and then treated without doctors knowing who is in each group. Instead, this is a retroactive look at treatment received by people who entered the hospital system over a period of time. And since treatment groups weren’t assigned, that means it’s possible some of the people who did not receive the drug were judged by doctors to be too ill to make it beneficial. Obviously if the sickest patients tend to wind up in the ‘no treatment’ group it’s very likely their death rate is going to be higher.
Retrospective study. Is that reliable?
As the wife and I experienced at HF, they have a can do attitude.
“You fight with us and we will fight for you with everything we got.”
[[The catch here is that this was not a double-blind, randomized study]]
Oh well then, let’s scream ‘HCQ is very dangerous and unproven”
[[Instead, this is a retroactive look at treatment received by people who entered the hospital system over a period of time.]]
Which should be a gold standard or determining and or judging the effectiveness- but nope- the let scream ‘Too dangerous! Unproven”
by that i meant the left will run with that fact- that it wasn’t double blind trial- that’s all they care about only because Trump endorsed the drug- They woudl rather 10’s of 1000’s die than to give Trump any credit for anything