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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Nov 2020

    Health Nerd Retweeted Ilan Schwartz MD PhD

    In the dissection of the Year That Was COVID-19, one of the most depressing failures will probably be the vast, almost uncountable sums we've spent proving over and over that HCQ doesn't workhttps://twitter.com/GermHunterMD/status/1331361051682562049 …

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    Ilan Schwartz MD PhDVerified account @GermHunterMD
    A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Hydroxychloroquine for Prevention of Covid-19 @oriolmitja and colleagues confirm findings of @boulware_dr et al that HCQ doesn’t work as pre-exposure prophylaxis. Not news, but kudos to the authors https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2021801#.X72F7LP9ia0.twitter …
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    • Cub, et cetera. Hayley Bowyer Hilary Wollis Marco Harry Hong Pepijn van Erp major havoc tj101033🇺🇸 Nadine Böke
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      2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Nov 2020

        Glad that these results are getting published, but it's still astonishing just how much effort we threw behind a single drug despite many early indications that it was a red herring

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Nov 2020

        We should never really have been in a situation where, simply because it was popular, most of the urgently needed research funds (and patients) went to research a single medication

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      4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Nov 2020

        Not that this is surprising, given how atrocious research incentives are generally, but it's still woeful that there are hundreds (thousands?) of uselessly small HCQ trials out there

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      1. Anil Makam‏ @AnilMakam 24 Nov 2020
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        Anil Makam Retweeted Anil Makam

        https://twitter.com/AnilMakam/status/1331397778128334848?s=20 …

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        Anil Makam @AnilMakam
        Hydroxychloroquine is the new vitamin D 153 interventional trials for COVID underway Amazing how will end up with >100 trials to refute 1 lousy observational study with a deeply flawed figure showing decreased viral loads with treatment https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1331387019000471553 … pic.twitter.com/cg7ctlWXpj
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      1. Josiah Grindrod‏ @JT_Grindrod 24 Nov 2020
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        HCQ is a miracle drug in that it's somehow aware that it's being used in a trial and immediately stops working. Taking my tongue out of my cheek, I can't believe we're still talking about this 6 months later, more as cases rise. And it's the same grifters pushing it.

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      1. Paul Glasziou‏ @PaulGlasziou 24 Nov 2020
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        Yes, the skewed funding has been depressing. A summary of global COVID19 research spend here->https://www.the-ciru.com/resin-covid19 

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      2. Hilda Bastian, PhD‏ @hildabast 24 Nov 2020
        Replying to @GidMK @carlzimmer

        I bet there are countless researchers already trying to count it!

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Nov 2020
        Replying to @hildabast @carlzimmer

        Health Nerd Retweeted Paul Glasziou

        Yep, I saw a couple of graphs floating around earlier this year and there's this interesting websitehttps://twitter.com/PaulGlasziou/status/1331415803053293569?s=19 …

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        Paul Glasziou @PaulGlasziou
        Replying to @GidMK
        Yes, the skewed funding has been depressing. A summary of global COVID19 research spend here-> https://www.the-ciru.com/resin-covid19 
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      1.  💧 Ian "Department of Diseasology"  🍩 Musgrave‏ @ianfmusgrave 24 Nov 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        But they didn’t test ZINNNCCC!!! (Sarcasm)

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      1. Mike Dee‏ @MikeDeeeeeee 25 Nov 2020
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        It's a waste! @c_drosten explained on 19 March already why the study was poorly designed, the results overinterpreted, and why one should not expect the mediocre results from HCQ in cell culture to translate to an effective treatment. https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/coronaskript134.pdf …

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