re: Wash Post:Antimalarial drug touted by Trump is linked to increased risk of death in corona

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Meh, I guess i'm the person who's actually pro-life.

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WaPo did what it always does. Its headline doesn't match its contents once you get to the shite they buried more than a dozen paragraphs down.

The drug is currently FDA approved. Doctors prescribe it. The end.

Also, you'll ignore it, but the "analysis" didn't control for initial condition.

The people in the analysis ON the drug STARTED OFF in worse shape than the people in the analysis that were NOT on the drug.

ALSO. Buried in the story are THESE quotes.

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The new study’s findings cannot necessarily be extrapolated to people with mild illness at home or those, like Trump, who are taking the antimalarials as a prophylactic.



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A large study of health-care workers that examines the use of hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure against covid-19 is in the works, but no results have been released.



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Evidence of any benefit, such as viral clearance or improved symptoms, has been almost nonexistent.

This one is amusing because there's another way to write the phrase "almost non-existent". Do you need me to hold your hand?

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Earlier this month, some proponents of hydroxychloroquine seized on a study out of New York University’s Langone Health center that threw zinc into the mix with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, and showed the treated group had a higher rate of survival. But researchers emphasized that it only showed that the combination had some promise


So, you CAN take it in COMBINATION?

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Last week, the National Institutes of Health announced a clinical trial of 2,000 adults to determine if hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin could be used to treat coronavirus patients


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Geoffrey Barnes, a cardiovascular specialist at the University of Michigan, said the study’s approach and its findings were “striking” in making the case that “the risk with these drugs is real.” However, he said that due to the enthusiasm some Americans have for the drug and the Lancet study’s findings, randomized trials are even more important.



Can I just point out that the very fact that various agencies are STILL doing trials indicates "THE EXPERTS" do NOT have a final answer on the subject despite what TigerMoronInDC seems to think?

OK. My boot is now so far up your arse, I'm somewhat concerned. And hell, I didn't even have to leave YOUR source to beat the shite out of your dumb asses

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Meh, I guess i'm the person who's actually pro-life.

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Meh, you are the person who gets his "science" misquoted from a WaPo journalist, rather than from the actual source.