It has been publicized that you are preparing to release results of some kind of “study” of hospitalized patients taking HCQ. Observational retrospective? And of what kind of patients treated at what point of disease progression? Testing if a seatbelt works by putting it on after the car accident occurs, and then using the injuries and survival to determine if the seatbelt worked is beyond ridiculous. The seatbelt won’t work. Is that what you are doing here?
Any results that come from an HCQ study on hospitalized patients are meaningless. The virus and immune response causes massive lung damage and the lack of oxygen causes major organ damage including the lungs, heart, kidneys and brain. By the time someone is in the hospital, trying to use an antiviral to fix those problems is too little too late. Any clinical study that gives us data about outcomes for already hospitalized patients based on using HCQ is as stupid as it gets. HCQ does not and cannot fix organ damage. If people die from organ damage, the data has nothing to do with whether or not HCQ would have stopped disease progression from getting there. It has nothing to do with proving effectiveness or ineffectiveness when treatment is given at the time it should have been: at the beginning, to prevent the virus from advancing and causing all this damage.
The only clinical studies that will determine if HCQ works are those that provide treatment to a patient initially diagnosed and to assess how many people progress to advanced disease requiring hospitalization. Not a single study on
clinicaltrials.gov does this any time soon, none with the full treatment protocol needed, and certainly not by the time we need the answer. The reason we are in a shutdown that is putting the world into a massive depression is the run on hospitalization. We need to know if this drug in combination with zinc and/or zpack can stop the progression to a serious clinical state requiring hospitalization. We need this data for properly dosed and not contraindicated patients.
Your “study” doesn’t seem to appear on
clinicaltrials.gov. Will you be outlining how many days the patients had symptoms before being administered the treatment? What symptomology they had at the time treatment started? Severity of their disease by the time they got the treatment? The comorbidities they have like obesity, diabetes, hypertension, lymphopenia, and the like? Age? How many were contraindicated for treatment? Dosing levels? So many more questions. Given the source of this study, I suspect all this will be overlooked. It will be on hospitalized patients and will confound all the disease related complications with drug treatment outcomes as if the drug can fix kidney failure or heart failure already caused by the hypoxia, cytokine storm and massively infected cells. Are you going to be another one of the liars? Part of the establishment with a penchant to prove this treatment doesn’t work? Or the naivete to think such analysis of the wrong patients treated at the wrong time actually mean the wrong conclusions you are likely to make? Are you here to help the public, or beat the drum?
Any study that tells us HCQ doesn’t work based on a study of hospitalized patients is garbage. If it studies HCQ on newly diagnosed patients, then that’s the only outcome we should be paying attention to. I hope you are not going to be just another liar. Are you going to be lying to the public? Killing people and contributing to failure of our entire economy? Because what if HCQ does work when administered at the right time to the right patients: when diagnosed? What if such proper treatment turned a 20% run on hospitalization into a 3% rate, are you going to stand in the way of our getting to that? Are you going to release results that answer this question, or are you going to confound the public knowledge with more garbage data masquerading as the real information we actually need?
Your choice, but I suspect I know the answer and I will publish this letter to put you on notice that we are watching.
Carla Mann Woods