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by black6 6y ago
https://hcqtrial.com/ https://hcqtrial.com/
"...an extensive discussion of the differences between the death rates of New York City and Lagos, Nigeria, which both received infected travelers around the same time. NYC's high rate has been linked to population density, poverty, overcrowding, and ethnicity. Lagos is a crowded urban center of about 22 million people with 30 families often in a single building sharing the same bathroom, and none of the factors mentioned favor reduced death rates in Lagos. Lagos further has lower quality of medical care. Yet NYC had a death rate 600 times higher. The younger population can only account for a small part of this difference. Mitchell concludes that there is a crossover prophylactic effect of antimalarial agents against COVID-19."
- James_Henry 6y agoThe paper that is talked about here doesn't make a very strong case for prophylaxis use of hcq. They may look at population-adjusted death rates, but that's not really enough. You could do the same things between different neighborhoods in NYC and probably see huge difference in death rates that may actually be caused by obesity or so many other factors. I will grant that prophylaxis use of HCQ is much more interesting than its use in treatment, but I don't think this paper is very strong.