https://twitter.com/MaggieEThornton/status/1380652509405003776
@Coyote you’re doing good work🤣 I’d join you but I’m permanently suspended from Twitter. Every time I open the app there is this big banner that says “Welcome Back” but I can’t tweet and they zero’d out my followers and followed accounts.
It's just confronting fools with their own stupidity. When both had "PhD" next to their names, and can't support a single scientific claim, it mostly says our educational system is garbage. But we all knew that... 😂
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Not really, but sort of... there is evidence if given very early on in the infection with a cocktail of other things that it can slightly improve your chance of survival IF and only if, you have an extremely high risk of dying of COVID in the first place (have many comorbidities). However for a normal healthy person taking it in the early part of the disease or otherwise poses more of a risk of you dying from the treatment than from COVID itself.
For that reason it is completely useless as both a preventative and as a treatment however for seriously ill people who contract covid and likely to die from it it **may** give them a small fighting chance. I say may because there isnt enough evidence to support that and it is still being researched, though using it on the general public has already shown to not be a viable treatment.
if we want to be absurdly pedantic there is no evidence the vaccines work either. they aren't exposure tested.
Incorrect. Peer reviewed study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7215635/
Quoting study:
"Among patients hospitalized in metropolitan New York with COVID-19, treatment with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, or both, compared with neither treatment, was not significantly associated with differences in in-hospital mortality."
"positive effect on COVID recovery" is meaningless. What's the test? PCR? Which by it's very nature destroys statistical significance of results?
We have no real test, we have treatments. Death rates are lower than last March. It's deadly, yes, but not as deadly. The only real data is the death rates, because "COVID" numbers are deeply manipulated, and weren't even reliable before they were distorted by the media.
@icedquinn
Furthermore in other studies at higher doses there was found to be some minor positive effect on COVID recovery, however it caused significant increase in heart arrhythmia and overall the death rate went up not down as a result. For this reason it is absolutely not effective as a general treatment.
However, as I said, if you are at extremely high risk of death from COVID then it may be a viable treatment as the risk from COVID would therefore outweigh the risk of arrhythmia. But even then your chances of surviving in general arent good.
So yea, it isnt completely not effective at all, but it is not itself or in combination with other things, an effective treatment. There are many peer reviewed studies showing that at this point.
@madmike @Coyote