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Researchers publish scathing critique of a hydroxychloroquine study touted by the White House
It seems the Detroit hydroxychloroquine study Trump touted has numerous systemic problems according to researchers.
And water is wet.
7/31/20
Researchers on Wednesday published scathing critiques of a study President Trump repeatedly touted on Twitter. That study, published earlier this month in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, claimed to show that hydroxychloroquine saved lives. President Trump tweeted about it enthusiastically. "The highly respected Henry Ford Health System just reported, based on a large sampling, that HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE cut the death rate in certain sick patients very significantly. The Dems disparaged it for political reasons (me!). Disgraceful. Act now," the President tweeted on July 6. But the study had multiple errors, flaws and biases, according to letters to the journal's editors. As a result of the flaws in the analysis the conclusions reached in [the study] are invalid," Graham Atkinson, an independent consultant in health care policy, wrote in one of the letters.
In a letter to the editor titled "Clarifying the record on hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of patients hospitalized with COVID-19," researchers at the University at Albany said the group that received hydroxychloroquine might have fared better because they were healthier to begin with and received more aggressive treatment. For example, the patients in the Henry Ford study who were given hydroxychloroquine had fewer risk factors for heart disease, the Albany researchers, Eli Rosenberg, David Holtgrave and Tomoko Udo, wrote in their letter. Also, the hydroxychloroquine patients were more than twice as likely to be given steroids, a treatment known to be effective against Covid-19. The Detroit study was not a randomized clinical trial, which is considered the gold standard in medicine and helps avoid these potential biases.
It seems the Detroit hydroxychloroquine study Trump touted has numerous systemic problems according to researchers.
And water is wet.