2scents
“Less hospitalizations, but similar mortality level?
Are these people dying at home, or do they have a greater mortality rate once hospitalized?”
There are many drugs that have this affect (I cant think of any off hand)
It cna mean a lot of things
For example lets say with out HCQ there are different groups
Group A – Have coronoa don’t even know it
Group B- Have mild symptoms, or not severe enough to warrant hospitalization
Group C – Get very sick go to hospital and do better
Group D – Get very sick go to the hospital and sadly die.
For illustrative purpses lets say 50% of the population is in group A, 30% in group B 10% in Group C and 10% in group D. (I’m making these number up this isnt based on real data)
Obviously The ultimate goal is to get as many people out of Group D as possible.
Dr. Zelnko’s study sadly did not show any statistically significant reduction in those in group D.
It DID however show a reduction in Group C these people did not get hospitalized, again these are people who without HCQ would have lived anyway.
So for example you could now have 50% in Group A 35% in Group B 5% in Group C and 10% in group D.
Those who died are the same with or without HCQ (10 % in each scenario) but those who were hospitalized (Group C+D) before HCQ was 20% after was 15%
Now this is by no means Nothing. Many of those who survived had brutal hospitalizations with months of recovery . Reduction in Hospitalizations is not nothing.
BUT it isnt reduction in mortality