HCQ is close to if not the silver bullet in terms of treatment. If you read the OP in my other threads on this topic it would be clear.
Here is a
summary of the evidence.
A reduction of 50% in mortality (which could be caused by a large number of different factors in an observational study) is definitely not this:
sil·ver bul·let
a simple and seemingly magical solution to a complicated problem.
If you even read the link in my quote, the efficacy is far more than 50%. And not just to prevent death, but to cure the disease.
The additional caveat that early treatment is seemingly necessary for efficacy is another issue. I just don't see why anyone would pin all their hopes on this drug, especially absent any clinical trials that suggest significant results. Can it be a placeholder until a better treatment is found? Sure, and that's the position of the some of the more reasonable sources in that article. Basically, that something is better than nothing.
Yes, this is the standard line of the establishment: since we have no gold-plated studies to validate HCQ+ yet, all of the evidence in its favor counts as anecdotal (this is the word used by Fauci, BTW.) Of course the US government is designing proper clinical trials of HCQ. But, guess what, since the trial designs don't account for timeliness of treatment and don't account for zinc, they're going to fail HCQ. Oh, what a pity.
Again I ask, if as you say HCQ is such a lame technique, why the necessity to make up a 5-continent data set out of thin air, plus engage the entire mainstream media, just to discredit it? Why such urgency?
Ask the tiny data analytics company and the 3 scientists behind the discredited studies. Not sure why you're trying to paint this as some huge conspiracy.
If the 3 or 4 people in this fake-data study got their 'results' broadcast around the world by the entire Western media, that is all you need for a huge conspiracy to succeed, isn't it?
Anyone who doesn't think this is a big deal should think of the following scenario: if and when you or one of your loved ones get covid 19 and begin to be hard of breathing, and you know this illness would have been stopped in its tracks, if it were not for the media widely broadcasting a hit-piece, fake-data study against HCQ, so that even if you want this treatment, you can't get it, either because there are rules against it, or you can't find a doctor who will prescribe it, or both, how are you going to feel?
