You said:
“It may very well be this drug prevents or reduces asymptomatic people form a longer, more severe illness.”
My response: With even this benefit,
the use of these drugs will be of help. Why would we not want to possiblity reduce longer, more severe illnesses?
RE: What is needed is a drug to help the people who present for the first time very ill (blue people) and (from my knowledge of the drug) I seriously doubt this works ‘as advertised’.”
So let me try to understand what you want, your objection to the study made by Dr. Raoult is he did not present in his paper, the extent or degree of illness in his 80 patients and you suspect that he was so careless and quick to “advertise” his results that he ONLY took patients who could have been cured on their own? (i.e, patients who did not display illness?)
Is that an accurate understanding of your objection?
I want to actually save lives.