Since we’ve gone 24 hours and I haven’t seen an accurate report on the hydroxychloroquine VA study, guess I’ll do it.

27 patients out of 98 died with HC, 25 patients out of 113 with HC and AZ, 18 out of 158 without any. Feel comfortable drawing massive conclusions from this? 1/
Also most reports say there was no difference between groups in ventilator need.

However it found 7% who had both hydroxycholoroquine and azithromycin needed ventilation, while more than 14% who had none needed it - double the amount. 2/
Most important though in the “VA hydroxychloroquine study” - it was not peer reviewed, not randomized, and… not even a study! It was a "retrospective analysis of data.”

This is a data point - nothing to draw conclusions from, either way. Full report:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v1.full.pdf
Forget “randomization” - these patients could have been different ages, different health risks, at different points in COVID-19 recovery. This was NOT a clinical trial. Just a study of "retrospective” data. @drsanjaygupta told viewers none of this. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v1.full.pdf
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