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1-I honestly don’t know whether the perfect golden standard RCT exists. as in the article that I referenced explains, many trials were derailed and abandoned once that bogus Lancet study became public. Despite being retracted many study were never able to get underway due to lack of participants who were now afraid to take this “dangerous drug”. However, as Yale epidemiologist Dr Harvey Risch pointed out in a CNN interview, nearly half of cancer treatments never went through the RCT. The narrative that we don’t know anything without RCT is simply false. You don’t need RCT to determine whether parachutes will save someone’s life when jumping off an airplane. When you take note that nearly every country that uses hydroxychloroquine freely has far lower death rates, when doctors around the country report there own success with it(example: Dr Brian Tyson, a frontline doctor in California who treated 1700 covid positive patients, 0 deaths, 1 hospitalization)when you hear patient testimony where at one point they had fever and was short of breath-and symptom free just hours after taking the drug-this all leads to the same conclusion, and hydroxychloroquine is indeed effective and should be used. There is perhaps one argument that would say despite all this anecdotal evidence, hydroxychloroquine’s should not be used. And that is “it’s dangerous” . It can cause cardiac arrhythmia, and then cardiac arrest, and death. Well what is the evidence of that? As it stands, hydroxychloroquine has always been considered a very safe drug for 65 years, a drug that can be taken by all: children, adults, pregnant women….but now all of the sudden the drug is dangerous. Why? Because there were trials conducted where patients received 800mg, or in some cases 2400mg!! These are indeed fatal doses! The “pro-hydroxychloroquine” doctors recommend just 200mg! But this obvious flaw for some reason was missed by fauci. Was missed by the media.
2-I’m not gonna get into scientific terms, but the general idea is that while hydroxychloroquine does have some limited antiviral properties, it’s main effect is that it lets the real antiviral-zinc-into the cell where it destroys the virus’ copying machine.
3-expert doctors are indeed reaching the intellectual standards of a 7th grader. I’ll refer you to an “open letter to Dr fauci” written by Dr George C. Fareed, from Brawley Ca, Michael M. Jacobs, M.D. MPH from Pensacola FL, and Donald C. Pompan, MD, from Salinas Ca.
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