Study shows HCQ and zinc increased Covid-19 survival rate by almost three times

by haltingproblem on 6/10/2021, 1:28 PM with 7 comments
  • by mindcrime on 6/10/2021, 2:30 PM

    Isn't medrxiv a pre-print server? Does that imply that this study has not been peer-reviewed yet and should therefore been treated with a certain measure of skepticism?

    Also, the Washington Examiner explicitly bill themselves as an ideologically biased media outlet "The Conservative Source Americans Deserve" or whatever. That doesn't directly mean anything in this article is wrong but it does lead one to consider that there may be deep rooted biases and spin at play here.

  • by bellyfullofbac on 6/10/2021, 3:37 PM

    Actual pre-print paper without an obviously right-leaning website touting the great parts of it: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.28.21258012v...

    Particularly, the word "zinc" doesn't appear in this paper. Maybe I should publish a news article saying HCQ and Coca-Cola help against Covid-19 and link to this paper? (I'd buy Coca-Cola stock beforehand...).

    The study done by the French doctor who became the champion of HCQ was deeply flawed, IIRC (don't quote me, I'm too lazy to look it up) he excluded data from patients who got this drug and died, and he was giving them selectively to healthier/younger patients, and in the end there was apparently no advantage to HCQ.

    Ah the paragraph above is shameful writing, I might've as well written "My aunt heard that Covid-19 is a virus programmed by Bill Gates and spread to 5G towers!". If you google his name (Didier Raoult) you'll get both sides arguing, and you can choose who to believe is telling the truth (sadly we usually choose the people on "our side"), here's one who is critical of this guy: https://forbetterscience.com/2021/03/23/didier-raoult-fraud-...

  • by haltingproblem on 6/10/2021, 1:31 PM

    It would be nice to just look at the science without denoising the HCQ boosterism by the right (Trump was right!) and the demonization of HCQ by the left (Fauci was right!). This has really muddled the issue, but thankfully, only in the US. The rest of the world seems to be carrying on (edit: study was done in NJ).

    Also, just like Vit. D, the science of disentangling the causal power of HCQ in various combos seems very hard. I think this issue will be debated for a very long time.