HUGE 30% reduction in mortality from covid in New Belgian Study on HCQ.
This study >8000 people, showed reduction in death almost 30% when HCQ used in LOW dose.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924857920303423
Study did not give zinc+antibiotic (AZ) – which may have further reduced the death rate?
Victoria – 462 real people died from Covid related illness.
HCQ might have allowed some real people to be NOT dead in Victoria.
Or even just one?
We shutdown, close borders and allow curfews to save just one life. But don’t ask our science advisers to accept silver or even bronze standard of publication instead of the gold of double blind, propective, longterm studies?
System of “science publication” is very flawed. Look at the retraction of the Lancet HCQ study saying it was dangerous. Could not happen in an unflawed system?
No gigabuck payoff for a pharma company in HCQ. Not like remdesivir – a drug which works a little but – but is approved as Gilead can charge about $4k/treatment – and championed the approval. Fair enough. But no rich champion for HCQ.
We have a decent, seeming reliable study saying 30% drop in death from a safe old drug. No vested interest lobbying for it in Australia. (Already use it in Belgium, France, Etc).
Only GOLD for us.