Let’s be clear. We hope that hydroxychloroquine will be successful in future clinical trials. We just want to point out that based on this one trial, hype is not warranted.
Beware what you hear! President Trump recently Tweeted out a message saying Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine.
He is referring to a study by Prof. Didier Raoult and coworkers from Marseille France. Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial.
In this video we review the major problems of this study – groups not being comparable, incomplete testing in the control group, patient dropouts, which might have significantly changed their conclusions, inconsistent reporting of data, and a potentially dangerous combination of drugs.
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More updates by Dr. Wiesbauer:
COVID-19 Update 1: How to tell if a pandemic is likely to occur or not–R0 and the serial interval:
COVID-19 Update 2: How to stop an epidemic – Herd immunity:
COVID-19 Update 3: Symptoms of COVID-19:
COVID-19 Update 4: Clinical characteristics of COVID-19:
COVID-19 Update 5: Estimating case fatality rates for COVID-19:
COVID-19 Update 6: Seasonality: will COVID-19 go away in the summer?:
COVID-19 Update 7: This is probably the most important picture of the whole Coronavirus-epidemic:
COVID-19 Update 8: Zinc and chloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19?:
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