Thursday, May 28, 2020

Questions raised over hydroxychloroquine study which caused WHO to halt trials for Covid-19

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/may/28/questions-raised-over-hydroxychloroquine-study-which-caused-who-to-halt-trials-for-covid-19


He stressed that even if the paper proved to be problematic, it did not mean hydroxychloroquine was safe or effective in treating Covid-19. No strong studies to date have shown the drug is effective. Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have potentially severe and even deadly side effects if used inappropriately, including heart failure and toxicity. Other studies have found the drug is associated with higher mortality when given to severely unwell Covid-19 patients.

Serious concerns have being raised by bioethicists, clinicians and scientists that scientific rigour and peer review is falling by the wayside in the race to understand how the virus spreads and why it has such a devastating impact on some people.

1 comment:

  1. First of all, even if the drug has deadly side effects it might still be useful. If there's a 10% of it killing you but it reduces death from CoVID by more than that, the benefits now outweigh the risks. Don't forget - lots of people who got the smallpox vaccine got ill and died. It's just that a whole lot more people got sick and died from smallpox so we took the lesser of two evils.
    It also depends who you use it on. The little data there is that show it works is all on seriously ill patients, not mildly ill or not-yet-ill ones.

    by the way, Chag Sameach. Stay healthy and safe

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