H-chloroquine, Covid-19 therapy and evidenced based medicine....
The government employee quality epidemiologists at the WHO, (is my fat pension ready yet?), stopped their study of this issue early, raising ethical grounds.They claimed a slight increase of mortality in the non placebo arm of their analyses. Notably, the method of sequential trials doesn't seem to have been employed. And the specific causes of death could have been better characterized. The many biostatisticians at the New York Times might consider ongoing edumacation.We now see growing new, more valid, evidence, beginning with the results of the largest study to date, that such differences may not exist. And even if these were there in the data, and true, if small, allow the use of a medicine, using prudent clinical judgment. As with nearly all agents to date. Even aspirin and acupuncture. I've blogged on the details of such, especially with the connections between heart and lung and inflammatory illnesses.
Trump Derangement-Hilary Deficit Syndrome may be progressive. Back to the drawing boards.
I again thank some here for both content of ideas, and ad hominem comments on physiognomy. Both entertain, have validity and are a clue to character.
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