Prophylactic Study: Hydroxychloroquine no more effective than placebo in preventing COVID-19; Front-line health workers had similar infection rates whether they took a daily regimen of hydroxychloroquine or not

Eureka Alert ^ | 09/30/2020 | UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

[SueRae]

Exactly. I would rather see a 3 arm trial which included the combo and far more participants.

And UofP employs Zeke Emmanuel in its’ medical division. And I do not trust an organization that would do that.

[cdcdawg]

Isn’t this a bit like saying that a birth control pill doesn’t provide protection against Herpes?

[rightwingcrazy]

“And those who did get the virus, whether they were taking hydroxychloroquine or not, were all asymptomatic or had very mild forms of COVID-19.”

So hey, they just proved that the cure for COVID-19 is to do absolutely nothing! Lets party.

Alternatively, their test population was inappropriate for determining the health benefits of hydroxychloroquine, and the conclusions here are overreaching.

[eyeamok]

This is one of many recent studies that didn’t follow the recipe, HCQ+ZINC+AZT for infections. Failure to utilize Zinc with HCQ will always end in failure and it has been demonstrated.

In Other Words the “Study” is really PROPAGANDA!!!

[FreedomPoster]

Yes. The Indians have been using it thus for a while.

Here is their technical doc on using it for prophylaxis:
https://www.icmr.gov.in/pdf/covid/techdoc/V5_Revised_advisory_on_the_use_of_HCQ_SARS_CoV2_infection.pdf

[Cold War Veteran - Submarines]

Add this to the list: https://c19study.com/

[Bryan24]

At no time has the President, nor anyone I know of, proposed that Hydroxychloroquine was effective at preventing infection of the SARS-CV-2 virus.

[Chode]

thx

[gibsonguy]

It has to be the Hydro cocktail. Every one of these studies that had Hydro as being useless have been with Hydro alone.

[Luigi Vasellini]

Very good summation of another fake HCQ study

[alloysteel]

Zinc is the missing ingredient in every one of these trials of HCQ a a preventative. Normal daily intake of zinc is less than 10 mg, but a therapeutic dose of at least 50 mg of zinc as ionic zinc is more than enough to overwhelm the corona virus even in heavily contaminated environments, where there is a high concentration of COVID-19 Wuhan virus circulating in the air.

Masks and even face shields are virtually useless in preventing the virus spores from being inhaled, under conditions of heavy contamination in the air.

Give your immune system a chance to act to resist the virus, and the infection will never rise to the symptomatic level.

[CMAC51]

If the test run was the RNA test and 40 cycles, then the real result was 0% infected for both groups so the study is mute. Only participants who were tested positive and were symptomatic should be counted as an infection.

[Texas Fossil]

I do not believe their test results.

The African coincidence is too strong evidence that it works.

[Hodar]

n a clinical trial testing whether a daily regimen of hydroxychloroquine could protect those most likely to be exposed to COVID-19, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found there was no difference in infection rates among health care workers who took the drug versus those taking a placebo.

Good Lord ... wrong Question.
Your IMMUNE System determines if you get sick or not.

Hydroxychloroquine is a potential TREATMENT if you do get sick But, I'm just an engineer, what do I know about medicine? The masks and 6ft spacing are about as effective as the Medieval treatment of hanging a dead rat from your neck; as that would attract the evil humors.

[Indoil]

The study doesn’t invalidate Hydroxychloroquine as an ameliorating medication for COVID-19. Neither those who took the medicine nor those that received the placebo had any serious symptoms of COVID-19 that required hospitalization. Hydroxychloroquine doesn’t prevent the infection, it just makes survival much more likely, especially when taken with Zinc. The objection from my doctor to prescribing Hydroxychloroquine is that it may cause heart rhythm abnormalities which this study refutes. In the middle 1980’s I routinely took over the counter Chloroquine while exploring for gold in Indonesia to prevent Malaria with no bad effects.

[Jim Noble]

“No zinc? Study void.“

Did Didier Raoult use Zn in any of his studies? Are his studies “void”?

Are all of the HCQ prophylaxis studies from India “void”?

[9YearLurker]

Yet another bogus study. HCQ works by getting more zinc into cells. Don’t take a zinc supplement with it and you haven’t got much zinc to speak of to get into those cells.

[9YearLurker]

Oh, and only 125 in the study in total, so just over 60 in each group if evenly divided. With a difference of only 0.3% of infection rate, that is just a fraction of one study participant—so only the difference in the two group sizes not being identical. It looks like they had all of four in each group test positive. But with sketchy testing and lots of false positives, who knows? No matter what, a study where there is no zinc given and only four in each group test positive in the two months anyway is pathetic. Yet AMA publishes this propaganda.

[Phlyer]

was it ever proposed to be a prophylactic ???

No. It's a treatment once you already have the disease. So it's the wrong question in the first place . . . unless your point is to prolong the fear by saying that the widely available, typically safe treatment is ineffective.

Gee, I wonder who benefits if the economy is doing poorly through the election.

My biggest complaint against Trump is that he has allowed the Deep State bureaucrats to play their game at his expense and at the expense of the American working people. He should have required a statement of success conditions to get the economic freedom back, then showed what each step being taken does to reach those success conditions. Most of has actually been done is about getting the people used to submitting to unConstitutional and meaningless restrictions in personal choices.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Major premise mistake. There is the virus, SARS-2COV, and the disease it may cause, Covid-19. Normally only perhaps 10% (or less) of people with the virus (or traces), as measured by oversensitive PCR test, actually develop symptoms of Covid-19.

We do care who tests positive via PCR for current or old trades of the virus. Just like nobody cares who has traces of the flu virus. We care about symptoms of the disease, and how severe they are. All else is hysterical noise.

HCQ is not meant to prevent or reduce the number of asymptomatic people who test positive on a SARS2-COV2 PCR test. It’s to prevent severe reaction to SARS-COV2 as manifested as Covid-19 Disease.

And nobody in the study, treatment or placebo, got Covid-19 disease. Zip, zero, nada. So the study proved...

NOTHING.

I still have a hard time understanding how stupid people are, including published scientists. Stupid, stupid, stupid.