Understood. My point was that such a study is pointless. But of course it was run by MD’s, so it was bound to be pointless.
There has never been a rational biochemical argument that HCQ could possibly prevent infection.
Perhaps for their next stupid MD trick, they can study whether wearing a seat belt prevents car crashes. Or whether wearing a parachute prevents aircraft mechanical failures.
1 Oct: Daily Mail: Australian scientists insist hydroxychloroquine COULD prevent people catching COVID-19 after giving the controversial drug to hundreds of health care workers
•Melbourne researchers believe hydroxychloroquine could prevent COVID-19
•Scientists are studying whether the drug works as a prophylactic for the disease
•About 230 front line healthcare workers signed up for the COVID SHIELD trial
•Studies found drug can impede replication of COVID-19 and discourage growth
By Jackson Barron
Researchers from the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne believe the drug could prevent people catching SARS-CoV-2 - the virus that causes COVID-19.
Hundreds of health workers in NSW and Victoria have been given the drug in the Institute’s COVID SHIELD trial in an effort to try and determine its effectiveness as a prophylactic...
COVID SHIELD co-lead investigator Marc Pelligrini said researchers were not considering the drug as a treatment, but as a preventative...
Test tube studies have found hydroxychloroquine can work to impede the replication of COVID-19 and discourage proliferation...
‘Hydroxychloroquine is a drug that is cheap and readily available, with very few side effects. If there is a chance this drug could help prevent frontline healthcare workers from getting COVID-19, I think it is important that we do a proper clinical trial to test it,’ she said...
While the Australian researchers remain hopeful hydroxychloroquine could prevent COVID-19, a U.S. study (Uni of Pennsylvania) found on Thursday the drug offers no protection...
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8790261/Australian-scientists-insist-hydroxychloroquine-prevent-people-catching-COVID-19.html