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Re: Hydroxychloroquine linked to a greater risk of death, study finds |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sat May 23 09:09:34 2020, in response to Hydroxychloroquine linked to a greater risk of death, study finds, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri May 22 11:06:08 2020. Here's a link to the Lancet article.This doesn't appear to be a randomized double-blind study, That is correct.It's a retrospective study of hospital admissions and outcomes. There's an extensive explanation of how the hospital admissions were chosen. Essentially, they chose all admissions from several countries from a standard database. The extensive inclusion of all data circumvents the need for a random sample. There's no need for a small randomized sample, if all the data is analyzed. That's possible thanks to computers, computerized hospital records, and cloud based storage of those hospital records. a fair explanation is that people prescribed hydroxychloroquine were more likely to die or suffer ill effects than people prescribed nothing, or prescribed something else. They the disease to its conclusion: death or cure. So, it did measure the drug's modest efficacy as well as its increased mortality. |
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