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Re:Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in h... by DataWorker on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:41PM (#22880668)
Wouldn’t ecg changes be plausibly the result of the virus itself? I haven’t read the paper so maybe they go into greater detail but it would be important to know whether such changes were seen in the control group as attrition/discontinuance is critically important to any study.
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Re:Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in h... by CydeWeys on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:49PM (#22880767)
Well they're the most frequently occurring serious side effect of HCQ, so I'm not sure why you're leaping to blame the virus when the drug they're giving is well-known for causing exactly those problems.

Those ECG changes aren't generally observed just in people who have COVID-19; it's the drug that we know does that, doing that.

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Re:Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in h... by mullingitover on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:33PM (#22881292)
I imagine this question would be sorted out by looking at the control group.
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