Calgary researchers hope to prove Hydroxychloroquine effective in COVID-19 treatment

CTV News ^ | 04/14/2020 | Kevin Green

[_Jim]

re: “Yes, a carefully done double-blind trial would work well with this kind of research. Setting it up is not the fastest process. In a possibly death or life situation, which is imminent for some patients, the double-blind takes too long.”

Oh, you mean like the Tuskegee experiment? That didn’t “end well” for the some of the participants ...

Abstract
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was an observational study on African-American males in Tuskegee, Alabama between 1932 and 1972. The U. S. Public Health Service ran this study on more than 300 people without notifying the participants about their disease nor treating them even after the introduction of penicillin.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29311536

[_Jim]

ionosphere - the layer of the earth's atmosphere that contains a high concentration of ions and free electrons and is able to reflect radio waves. It lies above the mesosphere and extends from about 50 to 600 miles (80 to 1,000 km) above the earth's surface.

[_Jim]

re: “Yes, it’s called the RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL ( AKA Double blind study ). One group gets a placebo ( but in the case of Covid-19, the standard treatment, non-HCQ is also given, and the other treatment with HCQ ).

So, patients are not really withheld any treatment at all.”

See: The Tuskegee experiment. Abstract excerpt and link a couple posts up.

[Steve Van Doorn]

That is what i get using a spell checker sorry

[Right Wing Assault]

Don't go at me.

First, a lot of bad things happened in 1932 to 1972 that should never should have happened.

"Carefully done" certainly would not describe the Tuskegee experiment. Those researchers did not "care" for the patients. There are now procedures in place that give detailed ways to run a trial. No researchers could do a Tuskegee today.

I also mentioned an other moral problem in my final paragraph, where half of the patients who have a rapidly dangerous disease are not getting any medicine. If the researchers find the trial finds the medicines are very good, some of the patients will be dead.

Double-blind trials have their place but I would not suggest anyone to take part in the Covid double-blind since there are treatments that are already looking very good.