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Early in the pandemic, there was a site called "c19study.com" that claimed that every single study on HCQ showed that it was beneficial (and of course any study
by ageitgey 6y ago
Early in the pandemic, there was a site called "c19study.com" that claimed that every single study on HCQ showed that it was beneficial (and of course any study that didn't show benefit was 'misinterpreting their results', so the site helpfully offered their own alternate study summary and marked it positive anyway). They also posted graphs that showed that COVID was magically way lower in every country that used HCQ as opposed to countries that didn't. Of course this was early on in the pandemic when different countries were further along than others in spread, so the graphs were meaningless.
The premise of the site was that if we just gave everyone HCQ, the pandemic would magically be resolved and the graphs obviously proved it. Various people passed it around as if it was scientific proof that HCQ worked super well but was being hidden or something. But if you read it with even a cursory critical thought, it was clear it was one-sided junk science and extreme cherrypicking.
This site is literally that same website as the earlier c19study.com, but now with a new domain name and expanded and rebranded as an IVM study. In fact, now they've franchised out and have like 20 different magic cures with a site for each one! But it's still the same junk science. And of course all those earlier graphs that "proved" ICQ was working because Brazil used HCQ and didn't have any cases are now gone because all those countries have since had huge outbreaks, just like almost everyone else.
I'm not saying anything about IVM as a treatment. I have no idea what affect it has. And I understand that the establishment has screwed up a lot of things - like for instance the horrible epidemic forecasting that has been way off, time and time again - so I understand why people are looking for alternate answers. But what I do know is that I wouldn't pull my evidence from this silly site.
And luckily we do actually have a miracle drug for COVID now that we know works - It's called a vaccine.