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I think I misunderstood you. I thought you were suggesting we should give drugs to people regardless of the fact that the randomized controlled trials say that
by frenchyatwork 6y ago
I think I misunderstood you. I thought you were suggesting we should give drugs to people regardless of the fact that the randomized controlled trials say that the drug doesn't provide any significant benefit. Giving widespread ASA to a population that wouldn't benefit from it would be a bad idea.
- cm2187 6y agoWell I am personally in favour of doing randomized control trials, not to cancel them based on what appear to be a weak statistical analysis. There was an argument to not wait at the peak of the epidemic rather than not treating (and some of these trials are only starting, which baffles me). But these trials should have been done from the outset. Doctors in the heat of the moment cannot wait for a randomized trial. They started keeping patients off intrusive ventilators without doing a randomized trial, based on annecdotal evidence. But these trials still need to happen.
- vharuck 6y agoAccording to most of the countries mentioned in the article, trials of HCQ are still going on. The WHO put its trial on pause. Other countries are just stopping the use of HCQ outside of approved trials.
- cm2187 6y agoI wish it would be the case but for instance in France the drug authority seems to be determined to stop all trials [1] [1] https://www.midilibre.fr/2020/05/26/coronavirus-lagence-du-medicament-suspend-a-son-tour-les-essais-avec-la-chloroquine,8903727.php https://www.midilibre.fr/2020/05/26/coronavirus-lagence-du-m...