You're not being lied too. You've been given multiple controlled studies showing it did not reduce patient death rates and one study showing the opposite. Unfortunately no amount of treatment compares to just wearing a mask. Prevention is by far a much better alternative than treatment. It's too bad there are politicians who continue to act like the seriousness of COVID is a fabrication. There's good reason the FDA and surgeon general have repeatedly advised against hydroxychloroquine.
CNN did report on it. https://www.cnn.com/...tudy/index.html
More than likely the improvement was the result of improved treatment regardless of hydroxychloroquine. Steroids, anti-inflammatory drugs. I'm going to believe multiple controlled studies which have been peer reviewed with supportive data over an observational study that threw hydroxychloroquine into a cocktail of drugs that are known to work. You're better of with steroids, anti-inflammatory drugs and improved treatment protocols. At the moment the government is sitting on a huge stock pile of hydroxychloroquine they don't know what to do with.
You were being lied to.
Most of the studies that showed it had no effect were given to patients in advanced stage of disease, and in many cases at extremely high doses.
In addition to that, no one has ever said it was intended for use in the hospital setting other than folks who did studies that were intended to fail, so that a $20 preventative measure would not displace a $3000-5000 measure given in the hospital setting.
The entire premise of the HCQ treatment is to administer it early enough to keep people out of the hospital in the first place.
And for that purpose, the evidence thus far is overwhelming that it helps...a lot.
Edited by K Wave, 04 July 2020 - 11:53 AM.
The strength of Government lies in the people's ignorance, and the Government knows this, and will therefore always oppose true enlightenment. - Leo Tolstoy
