NIH halts trial of hydroxychloroquine: treatment does no harm, has no benefit

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5 pointsmcguire5 comments

How many lives saved the placebo effect could produce?

Nobody claimed HCQ to be an effective treatment. Everybody claimed it to be the best prevention drug. Still is.

It was NOT promoted as a "prevention drug".

It was promoted as a treatment, especially when given early and as the regimen HCQ+ZINC+ZITHROMAX. DOXYCYCLINE was sometimes used instead of Zithromax.

> indicate that this drug provided no additional benefit compared to placebo control for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients.

This drug has been so politicized recently, and I feel like will continue to be until we see a real vaccine out.

Yeah but what if you don't even need that? Why you think a hypothetical vaccine would do a better job than your current real immune system?

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