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You're right, Orange Man saw it on FNC and ran with it publicly; actual observations from off-label use on patients and lab experiments on the virus in China and South Korea and France didn't inform him one single iota.Originally Posted by Rooster435
No, he saw it on Fox News. Like literally everything else he ever says or does.
People are right to say the French study isn't conclusive since it wasn't a double-blind placebo study with a large cohort of participants (same valid statement about the second, larger cohort French study that showed similar results as the first), and yes Trump recklessly oversold hydroxycholorquine as a "miracle cure"...but "anecdotal" evidence from around the world including here in the USA certainly appears as though it has some efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 and in the midst of a novel virus pandemic any treatment is certainly better than no treatment. Much of that "anecdotal" evidence revolves around early treatment to prevent progression to more severe disease, while patients already with severe disease don't respond quite as well.
The large study underway in New York right now should better tell the tale in a month or two as to how effective it actually is, and what circumstances allow it to be most effective for improving patient outcomes.