Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial
by hcknwscommenter on Monday March 23, 2020 @06:51PM
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"we are not talking about some marginal level of efficacy here:"
Your above-statement, and then the quote suggests you have no idea how this actually works in the real world. The reality is that NO-ONE KNOWS whether there is great efficacy, no efficacy, or marginal efficacy. No one. And we will not until we have a properly designed trial. That link direct us to is horrifyingly badly designed (well, not designed at all). There are all sorts of confounding issues in their results.
Your above-statement, and then the quote suggests you have no idea how this actually works in the real world. The reality is that NO-ONE KNOWS whether there is great efficacy, no efficacy, or marginal efficacy. No one. And we will not until we have a properly designed trial. That link direct us to is horrifyingly badly designed (well, not designed at all). There are all sorts of confounding issues in their results.