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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
You said you spoke with four doctors friends who said the drugs worked. On that basis, you agreed that the drugs worked, and said that any argument saying the drugs might not work and that the risks of heart disease might outweigh any potential benefits was pure sophistry. You then said you spoke with another doctor and that you concluded that the risk of heart disease was “minimal” and a “rounding error.”
The FDA has now said the drugs are “unlikely to be effective” in treating COVID and that the risks of serious heart disease outweigh the potential benefits. So I totally get why you so can confidently state that you were not wrong.
As for your statement that Icky’s friend was “all but assuredly” saved by the drug, well I don’t whether or not he was or was not. And neither do you. The only difference is one of us is pretending that he knows. But I’ll never grow tired of all the amateur scientists and fake doctors talking out their asses. If people had only listened to you when you said that we would only have a few thousand deaths maximum, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
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I do not have the full FDA study, nor do you. Neither you nor I know if the cardiac issues cited by the FDA accrued from Covid on its own, HCQ on its own, or a combination of the two. Nor do we know the comorbidities of the people who suffered the cardiac issues. If the "risk" of its use accrues from the fact that it strains the heart of a person with underlying heart disease, and the study was packed full of those, then you have a flawed data set.
How "risk" is calculated by the FDA is not defined in the press release.
Nor is how "benefit" is defined explained in the release. It could be that the drug does benefit healthy people, but the chance of it harming a much greater group of unhealthy people outweighs the benefit it provides to others.
I also notice the FDA does not say it does not work -- only that they deem it unlikely to work, and then in the next sentence state that it has "potential benefits."
It's a very sloppy release. Ty sees intent. I see ineptitude, with science, grammar, or perhaps both.
