A you tube commercial is not a study. People are welcome to do as they see fit but there are currently no studies that show effect of hydroxychloroquine in mild disease or prophylactically. Hopefully some will be completed soon
It is worth listening to Didier Raoult and here is his response to the notion that Hydroxychloroquine kills people. I ran it through Google Translate for English.
The Professor from Marseille published a video on Monday as a response to the famous study on hydroxychloroquine which demolishes the treatment he has been ardent defender of. A punchy video in which Didier Raoult settles his accounts.
Didier Raoult in the ropes? No! Heckled by a last study showing the ineffectiveness or even the harmful nature of hydroxychloroquine, Didier Raoult counter-attacks. While the article published in The Lancet - which shows that chloroquine increases the mortality rate in patients with coronavirus - prompted Olivier Véran, Minister of Health, to review the chloroquine protocol, Didier Raoult replied to his way via his social networks. A video posted on Twitter this Monday in which he is interviewed. And dismantles point by point the arguments put forward in the specialized medical journal. The intonation so special of Professor Marseille is the same. But the tone has definitely changed. He who denounces a “messy study”, between irony and good words. He who also claims to have a head start, charging politicians and the media.
“The coronavirus epidemic is ending as I imagined it is happening. We closed our first very very large study with more than 3600 patients which allows us to have a fairly clear vision of what is happening Most people have been treated with the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. And in this group, mortality is 0.5%, the lowest in the world. I don’t know if hydroxychloroquine is anywhere else kills, here she saves a lot of people.
“We did 130,000 tests, we diagnosed 5,000 cases, many of which were treated here. We believe we have done our job.”
“I was one of the first to say that the children were not affected. Now we know why, I will tell you next week. We also know that zinc plays a role in the severity of the disease. People who have severe conditions have lower zinc levels than others. We know that people can be very sick with very visible lesions on the CT scan while they are not short of breath. “
“This is the end of the epidemic, we will have to learn from it, with a little patience, the press does not live on the same pace as us. We are very calm about what we did, after you know, scientific, political, advertising quarrels have a time, time sorts all that out. “
Why these contradictions between the studies on hydroxychloroquine? Elements of response emerge when we note that the studies against this treatment are mainly studies carried out on databases, not on patients
“How do you want a messed up study with big data to change what we saw here?”
“Latest study: it’s a bit crazy. I understand that people have difficulties, journalists, politicians,” ah you say that, he says that “, it’s not my problem. Here we have 4000 patients in our hands. You don’t think I’m going to change because there are people who make big data which is a kind of completely delusional fantasy which takes data which we don’t know the quality, which mixes everything, which mixes the treatments of which we do not know the dose that we have given. It is certain that if you take hydroxychloroquine, you can kill yourself with it, if you take too much (. ..) How do you want a messy study with big data to change what we saw here? “
“There is a drift in medical research journals”
“The question is rather whether there is a drift in medical research journals, which I believe is comparable to that which we have seen in the general media, in which reality, the real world, tangible reality, the things that we can see, is twisted in such a way that in the end, what is reported has nothing to do with observable reality. It is perhaps only Alzheimer who will erase what I saw with my eyes. “