Bayer donates 3M chloroquine phosphate tablets for potential Covid-19 treatment

Re:Bayer donates 3M chloroquine phosphate tablets for potent... by SpikeDad on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:43PM (#22632539)

Haha. Continued use seems to imply it's efficacy. This might be the most illogical post on Hacker News in some time.

I think we could have a whole website of things that were continued to be used without a shred of evidence of effectiveness.

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Re:Bayer donates 3M chloroquine phosphate tablets for potent... by prostheticvamp on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:57PM (#22633074)

We could also have a whole website of things people strongly believed were effective that RCTs absolutely demolished.

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Re:Bayer donates 3M chloroquine phosphate tablets for potent... by SpikeDad on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:36PM (#22633331)

RCT? Sorry don't know that abbreviation.

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Re:Bayer donates 3M chloroquine phosphate tablets for potent... by jshevek on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:50PM (#22633424)

Randomized controlled trial

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Re:Bayer donates 3M chloroquine phosphate tablets for potent... by SpikeDad on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:23PM (#22652450)

Thanks

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