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> My current policy is to wait until the evidence is older than a week. That is one open label study on patients that were already in hospital - strong evidence
by em500 6y ago
> My current policy is to wait until the evidence is older than a week. That is one open label study on patients that were already in hospital - strong evidence, but not a final word. Maybe they missed something, maybe they made a mistake. Science is hard.
Indeed: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971220321755 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...
I'd say it's not conclusively settled yet.
- jjeaff 6y agoThe truth of the efficacy of hydroxy chloroquine to treat covid may not be settled. But what is settled is that there is not enough conclusive evidence right now to use it as a treatment. In medicine, when confronted with low degrees of certainty, the default is to -not- administer to treatment until proven otherwise. As a side note, notice that it appears Trump did not receive HCQ as part of his treatment regiment.