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Researchers publish scathing critique of a hydroxychloroquine study touted by the White House

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Researchers publish scathing critique of a hydroxychloroquine study touted by the White House

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.
 
Simple, if you get the bug don’t take the drug, go with what Fauci recommends and ffs shut up.
 
yawn...

Got to keep the COVID fear alive...for reasons that are obvious to some...beyond the intellectual capacity for others.

The families of the 150,000 dead Americans disagree with you that covid is a hoax just to make Trump look bad. Do you ever get tired of dismissing dead Americans to protect Donald?
 
The families of the 150,000 dead Americans disagree with you that covid is a hoax just to make Trump look bad. Do you ever get tired of dismissing dead Americans to protect Donald?

Still making **** up, eh?

I've never said COVID is a hoax.
 
yawn...

Got to keep the COVID fear alive...for reasons that are obvious to some...beyond the intellectual capacity for others.

You may not have said covid is a hoax but writing stuff like got to keep the covid fear alive is very akin to calling it a hoax. Or is that beyond your intellectual capacity?
 
yawn...

Got to keep the COVID fear alive...for reasons that are obvious to some...beyond the intellectual capacity for others.

still with the obedient "fear porn" narrative. and now we learn you believe "legitimate" treatments are being covered up to help that agenda. I have to ask, is the whole world in on this agenda? even the countries that had intelligent and competent leaders who got it under control?
 
You may not have said covid is a hoax but writing stuff like got to keep the covid fear alive is very akin to calling it a hoax. Or is that beyond your intellectual capacity?

COVID isn't a hoax, but it is a tool.

Is that difference beyond YOUR intellectual capacity to understand?
 
still with the obedient "fear porn" narrative. and now we learn you believe "legitimate" treatments are being covered up to help that agenda. I have to ask, is the whole world in on this agenda? even the countries that had intelligent and competent leaders who got it under control?

The Trump haters throughout the world will use everything they can to stop Trump. And it's not just the US Democrats who want to stop him.

The ends justify any means.
 
The Trump haters throughout the world will use everything they can to stop Trump. And it's not just the US Democrats who want to stop him.

The ends justify any means.

ooohhh, so it is a world wide conspiracy against your orange master. Thanks for the heads up. before you leave, can you explain how "the ends justify the means" proves your "narrative". thanks in advance.
 
It seems the Detroit hydroxychloroquine study Trump touted has numerous systemic problems according to researchers.
Lol it’s not going to work for you all a second time. Sending your liberal research cronies to criticize every study which might help Trump is going to backfire.

The Henry Ford study is just as legitimate as the NEJM study.

What your party is doing here, again, is killing people, who fail to receive medical treatment because of your party’s gameplaying.
 
Lol it’s not going to work for you all a second time. Sending your liberal research cronies to criticize every study which might help Trump is going to backfire.

The Henry Ford study is just as legitimate as the NEJM study.

What your party is doing here, again, is killing people, who fail to receive medical treatment because of your party’s gameplaying.

You seem a little fixated on this.
 
The Trump haters throughout the world will use everything they can to stop Trump. And it's not just the US Democrats who want to stop him.

The ends justify any means.

Wow. Millions upon millions of people in the world are part of a vast conspiracy against Trump, so they banded together and caused this Coronavirus thing to happen.

Did you read that on the Birther boards you frequent?
 
The Trump haters throughout the world will use everything they can to stop Trump. And it's not just the US Democrats who want to stop him.

The ends justify any means.

This is not at all paranoid ravings.
 
ooohhh, so it is a world wide conspiracy against your orange master. Thanks for the heads up. before you leave, can you explain how "the ends justify the means" proves your "narrative". thanks in advance.

Wow. Millions upon millions of people in the world are part of a vast conspiracy against Trump, so they banded together and caused this Coronavirus thing to happen.


There are TRILLIONS at stake.
 
There are TRILLIONS at stake.

er uh MC, your delusional (and obedient) conspiracy is the whole world is conspiring against trump. Now you seem to be implying its about money. I'm guessing even you figured out that posting random clichés (the ends justify the means) didnt prove your original delusional (and obedient) conspiracy. Try to focus, actual scientists have studied HC. Even the Veterans Administration studied it. they said it caused more harm than good.

There were 70 deaths among the 368 patients evaluated, with the lowest rate of death among those not treated with HC (n=18), compared with 27 deaths in the HC alone arm and 25 deaths in the HC+AZ arm.

Covid-19: VA Study Points to Increased Mortality with Hydroxychloroquine | Physician's Weekly

The reason you shouldnt make up excuses out of thin air to ignore the VA study is because a trump toadie was only trying to prove trump right.

Researchers found no benefits of using the drug and discovered a possible link between hydroxychloroquine and higher death rates. The researchers urged medical providers to wait for more rigorous studies of hydroxychloroquine before it’s adopted as a treatment for the virus.

The analysis prompted Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to accuse the department of using veterans as “human testing subjects.” Democrats in Congress also are raising concerns.


VA trials of hydroxychloroquine will continue despite troubling studies - Veterans - Stripes

at some point MC, you need to put America and democracy ahead of your obedience to trump.
 
The GOP admin caused this pandemic economic crisis by ignoring their responsibility to keep the emergency preparedness inventory stocked up.

Trump admin was advised in early 2017 by the military of this issue then the GOP turned a blind eye to the matter.

The Obama admin also advised Trump in late 2016.

Now nearly 150,000 humans have died due to GOP neglect. Is this murder or homicide?

About stimulus money which belongs to the taxpayers NOT elected officials and it is the taxpayers that put this money back into the economy almost immediately by way of groceries, car payments, shoes for the children, house repairs, health care etc etc etc.

Taxpayers want our money WE did not ask for COVID 19 which created massive unemployment. Republicans screwed up big time. Trump apparently thought pandemics was just going to be another word in his limited vocabulary.

Republicans specialize in screwing up the economy in every republican administration since Reagan-Bush thus Trump thinks he should be one more conservative robot. The entire GOP obviously just clicks their heels and cheers this crap on blindly.
 
COVID isn't a hoax, but it is a tool.

Is that difference beyond YOUR intellectual capacity to understand?

A tool? It's a health crisis that some people tried their best to turn into a hoax. It's nothing more than the common cold we were told or there are only fifteen people with it soon to be zero. I call that people doing their best to make it into a hoax.
 

Yes. A tool.

Regardless the undeniable affect COVID has on people, it is most certainly being used as a tool by the Democrats and Trump haters to affect the upcoming election.
 
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