Hydroxychloroquine still doesn't do anything

[struggle4progress]

SCIENCE07.16.2020 05:52 PM

... Health care workers gave hospitalized people the drug in the early days of the pandemic (because they didn’t have much else to give), and influential voices like carmaker Elon Musk and President Donald Trump advocated for it as a possible cure.

All that happened before scientists could determine whether that was true. And with the release of two new sets of data this week, one from a massive drug trial in the United Kingdom on Wednesday and the other from researchers at the University of Minnesota today, the answer appears to be: no. Hydroxychloroquine does not appear to keep people from getting the disease after they’ve been exposed to someone who has it. It does not change how many people hospitalized with Covid-19 die of the disease. It does not reduce symptoms for people with milder cases who aren’t in the hospital. ...

https://www.wired.com/story/hydroxychloroquine-still-doesnt-do-anything-new-data-shows/

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Does anyone know how much of that crap De Santis bought with Florida taxpayer money?

Sounds like another Enron backscratching transaction.

[Rstrstx]

2. The University of Minnesota study is interesting

It only used people just coming down with signs of the disease. It showed there was only a 3% hospitalization rate and <1% death rate in both the trial and control groups. Over 2/3 had none of the listed comorbidities and median age was around 40. HCQ seemed to help a little in reducing hospitalization but did not affect death rates. However the raw numbers were so low for hospitalization and death (<10 and 1 respectively) they can't be statistically significant.