Second U study shows NO hydroxychloroquine benefit in COVID-19 fight

[spanone]

U researchers entered clinical trials with hopes of finding a new COVID-19 treatment, but ended up in a political controversy.

An anti-malaria drug that doctors hoped would work against COVID-19, and that President Donald Trump championed and took himself, has failed to show any benefit in a second University of Minnesota trial.

U researchers compared outcomes of people with early symptoms of COVID-19 — with one group taking hydroxychloroquine and the other taking a non-medicating placebo — and found no difference in outcomes.

Death rates of .4% were identical in the two comparison groups. Hospitalizations and persistent symptoms were slightly more common in the placebo group, but not by a statistically significant difference. Mostly mild side effects such as nausea or stomach problems were reported by 43% of the patients taking the drug vs. 22% taking the placebo.

The results were hardly what U researchers hoped for back in early spring when they launched one of the nation's first clinical trials of any drug for COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by exposure to a novel coronavirus. Few treatments of any kind have been proven to work against COVID-19.

https://www.startribune.com/second-u-study-shows-no-hydroxychloroquine-benefit-in-covid-19-fight/571791202/

[bluedye33139]

1. The hydroxychloroquine cult is weird

It reminds me of how scientologists all believe that calcium and magnesium have nearly magical psychiatric properties, because L Ron Hubbard told them that calcium and magnesium had miraculous psychiatric powers.

I've seen a large number of Trump people claiming that hydroxychloroquine confers immunity to infection. It is a bizarre belief. The science doesn't back it up. In fact, there aren't even any real studies of the immunity hypothesis.

[Dem2theMax]

4. The nurse who lives across the street from me

absolutely swears that hydroxychloroquine is the cure-all for Covid-19. And this morning she told a neighbor that she believes all the kids should go back to school.

Yes! She is a Republican. And if you go in their house Fox News is on 24/7.

[Nevilledog]

2. Those 62 million doses are gonna go away. Next week: new study FOR hydroxychloroquine

[malaise]

5. They can be distributed for malaria

as they did before

[Nevilledog]

6. Not enough profits in their pockets quick enough for them.

[malaise]

7. Precisely

One day we'll find out why the Con and his goons went to India at the end of February.
I have long been convinced that it's linked to this drug.

[Nevilledog]

8. You might be onto something.

[louis-t]

3. They have wasted enough time studying it to placate the orange asshole.

He still wants you to think it works. I know a trumper who had the virus and swears he was healed because after 2 weeks they gave him the drug and, magically, 5 days later he started feeling better.