French doctors find hydroxychloroquine prevents COVID deaths
The mainstream media has long downplayed the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in treating COVID-19, even linking it to conspiracy theories. Source.
In a new pre-print* study, involving over 30,000 patients, French doctors, effectively funded by the French government, found: “HCQ-AZ treatment was associated with a significantly lower mortality rate than no HCQ-AZ after adjustment for sex, age, period and patient care setting (adjusted OR (aOR) 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.55, 0.45-0.68). The effect was greater among outpatients (71% death protection rate) than among inpatients (45%). … HCQ prescribed early or late protects in part from COVID-19-related death.” Source.
Okay then.
Extra: This is consistent with our earlier reporting on hydroxychloroquine. How many lives were lost because our leaders and experts denied alternative treatment options, acting as if the COVID jabs were the only way out? *Also, is it a problem that this is a pre-print study, so not yet fully published? Well, it wasn’t a problem for CNN when citing a pre-print study to argue against the use of HCQ, and to take a swipe at President Trump. Source. And many excellent papers start off as pre-prints, eventually being published proper. For example, the crucial ‘Benn’ and ‘Fraiman’ articles, indicating the clinical trial data shows the COVID jabs were - even back then - useless at best. There is also the excellent pre-print paper by Lataster (me) arguing that the COVID jabs are likely harmful (at least) now, but that may well spend an eternity in pre-print limbo… Finally, an ‘earlier attempt’ at this study, heavily criticised by leaders and experts over its small sample size, was published proper. Source. And its defence was also published proper. Source. And now we have a much more impactful study, involving many thousands of patients. Just as with ‘conspiracy theories’ that turn out to be true (like natural immunity), we can expect to wait a few months.
Fantastic
There's a reason the media focused so hard for so long on ivermectin (which controlled studies keep showing has little or no effect on COVID-19 outcomes): hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin together are useful.