Study finds no benefit, higher death rate in patients taking hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19
April 21, 2020
Coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine, a treatment touted by President Trump, were no less likely to need mechanical ventilation and had higher deaths rates compared to those who did not take the drug, according to a study of hundreds of patients at US Veterans Health Administration medical centers.
The study, which reviewed veterans' medical charts, was posted Tuesday on medrxiv.org, a pre-print server, meaning it was not peer reviewed or published in a medical journal. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the University of Virginia.
French study finds hydroxychloroquine doesn't help patients with coronavirus
In the study of 368 patients, 97 patients who took hydroxychloroquine had a 27.8% death rate. The 158 patients who did not take the drug had an 11.4% death rate.
"An association of increased overall mortality was identified in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine alone. These findings highlight the importance of awaiting the results of ongoing prospective, randomized, controlled studies before widespread adoption of these drugs," wrote the authors, who work at the Columbia VA Health Care System in South Carolina, the University of South Carolina and the University of Virginia. Researchers also looked at whether taking hydroxychloroquine or a combination of hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin, had an effect on whether a patient needed to go on a ventilator.
"In this study, we found no evidence that use of hydroxychloroquine, either with or without azithromycin, reduced the risk of mechanical ventilation in patients hospitalized with Covid-19," the authors wrote.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/health/hydroxychloroquine-veterans-study/index.html
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This President and his supporters have maintained their dubious record of having come out on the wrong end of every pronouncement they have made concerning COVID-19!
They were quick to state that hydroxychloroquine was a "miracle cure" for COVID-19, based on anecdotal reports, and this President made the absurd claim That "What do you have to loose?"
The worth of any drug is the ability to duplicate positive test results by different researchers around the nation and the world - Trump has suffered from a "self-inflicted wound" by advocating for an untested drug for COVID-19!
It should be noted that the President had mysteriously stopped hyping his drug of choice - perhaps he received advanced notice that the testing results on hydroxychloroquine didn't match his "hype!"
April 21, 2020
Coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine, a treatment touted by President Trump, were no less likely to need mechanical ventilation and had higher deaths rates compared to those who did not take the drug, according to a study of hundreds of patients at US Veterans Health Administration medical centers.
The study, which reviewed veterans' medical charts, was posted Tuesday on medrxiv.org, a pre-print server, meaning it was not peer reviewed or published in a medical journal. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the University of Virginia.
French study finds hydroxychloroquine doesn't help patients with coronavirus
In the study of 368 patients, 97 patients who took hydroxychloroquine had a 27.8% death rate. The 158 patients who did not take the drug had an 11.4% death rate.
"An association of increased overall mortality was identified in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine alone. These findings highlight the importance of awaiting the results of ongoing prospective, randomized, controlled studies before widespread adoption of these drugs," wrote the authors, who work at the Columbia VA Health Care System in South Carolina, the University of South Carolina and the University of Virginia. Researchers also looked at whether taking hydroxychloroquine or a combination of hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin, had an effect on whether a patient needed to go on a ventilator.
"In this study, we found no evidence that use of hydroxychloroquine, either with or without azithromycin, reduced the risk of mechanical ventilation in patients hospitalized with Covid-19," the authors wrote.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/health/hydroxychloroquine-veterans-study/index.html
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This President and his supporters have maintained their dubious record of having come out on the wrong end of every pronouncement they have made concerning COVID-19!
They were quick to state that hydroxychloroquine was a "miracle cure" for COVID-19, based on anecdotal reports, and this President made the absurd claim That "What do you have to loose?"
The worth of any drug is the ability to duplicate positive test results by different researchers around the nation and the world - Trump has suffered from a "self-inflicted wound" by advocating for an untested drug for COVID-19!
It should be noted that the President had mysteriously stopped hyping his drug of choice - perhaps he received advanced notice that the testing results on hydroxychloroquine didn't match his "hype!"
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