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“We cannot know.”
I realize my last response was unclear.
Lets say I tried to show you candy cures cancer. I take 100 cancer patients give them all candy and , i don’t know 90 of them are alive a year later.
Pretty impressive right?
Well it depends. what would have happened to those patients if they DID NOT get candy?
How could we know you might ask?
Well we take similar patients DO NOT give them candy and see how they do. If 90 of them are alive a year later WITHOUT candy. Then it wasnt the candy that helped them.
Make sense?
furthermore, that response was addressing a side question namely How could you have ““Less hospitalizations, but similar mortality level?”
I was outlining a POSSIBLE explanation of how a medication can lead to less hospitlizations, but not have an effect on mortality. NOT that that IS What HCQ is doing. We dont know from the study maybe it is decreasing mortality, maybe it is causing more people to die at home (so less hospitalizations but same mortality)