BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE:
The study at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v1 says:
‘CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we found no evidence that use of hydroxychloroquine, either with or without azithromycin, reduced the risk of mechanical ventilation in patients hospitalized with Covid-19. An association of increased overall mortality was identified in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine alone.’
What’s missing? Yep, mortality with HC + AZ. In the text it says:
‘Compared to the no HC group, the risk of death from any cause was higher in the HC group (adjusted hazard ratio, 2.61; 95% CI, 1.10 to 6.17; P=0.03) but not in the HC+AZ group (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.14; 95% CI, 0.56 to 2.32; P=0.72).’
In other words, and unless I can’t read plain English, the risk of death is reduced by HC + AZ.
Naturally, this is completely overlooked by those with an anti-HC agenda like Elizabeth A. Morris.
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See page 12 in the actual 27 page study (link is in the AP news article). In the VA study hydroxychloroquine was more likely to be given to more seriously ill patients, which suggests it was given later in the disease progression when clinical experience has found it least useful
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