The recent Lancet study says –
“After controlling for multiple confounding factors (age, sex, race or ethnicity, body-mass index, underlying cardiovascular disease and its risk factors, diabetes, underlying lung disease, smoking, immunosuppressed condition, and baseline disease severity), when compared with mortality in the control group (9·3%),”
-that they cannot tell at all if HOQ is beneficial or not!
Because, they said-
“We were unable to confirm a benefit of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine, when used alone or with a macrolide, on in-hospital outcomes for COVID-19. ”
Certainly, chloroquine is more toxic than hydroxychloroquine, but the antibiotics are also toxic.
The study does not even give doses that were administered, very. very significant omission!
Of course, also no zinc was used in the study!
The study is not valid.
Dr Z made a valid study which is apparently going to be published in about 2 weeks, it is a retrospective study, completely valid.
Dr Z did invent the regimen, he said so and said it was only with Hashem’s help, and he takes no credit for it himself.
In the NYU study of Philip Carlucci et ali-:
“Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin plus zinc vs hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin alone: outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients”
It was also a retrospective observational study.
They wrote “Conclusion: This study provides the first in vivo evidence that zinc sulfate in combination with hydroxychloroquine may play a role in therapeutic management for COVID-19.”
The use of the word “may” is an unwarranted understatement.