” the “control group” is the total of people who were in high risk categories and presented with symptoms of Wuhan Disease, and were not treated with this mixture.”
Ok, I’m with you that is a control group.
On to the next part
here is the problem is his experimental group comparable to the control group ie are the 405 outpatients he treated, comparable to the “total of people who were in high risk categories and presented with symptoms of Wuhan Disease, and were not treated with this mixture”
or is there something different about them?
As yo usay “So considered as scientific research this would be a bad study and would not prove anything.”
” However he is not conducting research, and doesn’t purport to be. For his purposes it’s sufficient, and the only conclusion one can draw is that it seems likely that his treatment is helping.”
and thats fine . He SHOULD do what he thinks is best for his patients. That is not the point I am discussing. The discussion started over why others don’t follow suit.
Again to sum up, at no point did I criticize Dr. Z, and no point did I say not to take HCQ (in fact I said the opposite at first “can’t hurt” , but I’m even less convinced now)
My involvment here was solely in response to “Does anyone understand why doctors don’t want to give hydroxychloroquine even though it is working throughout the country” (asked on the first thread on this topic)
And the answer is 1) many haven’t found it to be working. 2) the data that suggests it IS working is a ” bad study and would not prove anything.”