27/n You'd want to see case numbers by day, along with every intervention (i.e. social distancing, school closures etc) and the day they were implemented for every country on the list Then, number of HCQ doses given by day AT AN ABSOLUTE MINIMUM
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28/n Even if the authors make the suggested changes up until 25/n, they'd just end up with a meaningless correlation without measures like these, which are an enormous amount of work The thing about ecological studies is that the good ones take A LOT of time
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29/n Oh, another thing The authors keep maintaining on Twitter that this study was "random" because patients didn't choose what treatment they got, countries did This is absolute nonsense
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30/n Firstly, it is misdefining random If ANYONE chooses the treatment, then it's not random BY DEFINITION Random means no one chooses, it's that simple
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31/n But also - PATIENTS DID CHOOSE This is where we get back to the ecological fallacy - it is absurd to suggest that individuals within countries didn't choose to take HCQ. Even countries that authorised it had adopters and non-adopters
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Which is why you need some measure of how much HCQ people actually took in these countries otherwise you can conclude nothing whatsoever from the results
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That's a nonsense reply. It's entirely possible that people in the intervention group of your study received LESS HCQ, so as I said it's a totally meaningless analysis at the moment. Could just as easily correlate lemon consumption by country or something
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What evidence? Did you track down number of doses given by country and when they were given? Or did you gather one or two news reports that provide pretty much no information 
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