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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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    1. 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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    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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    5. John Serrao‏ @serraotweets 24 Nov 2020
      Replying to @GidMK

      But this is how science works: you have to repeatedly test a hypothesis. You wouldn't know that it doesn't work if we hadn't gone through the process.

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Nov 2020
      Replying to @serraotweets

      We should have spread the funding evenly across a wide range of possibilities that were carefully considered. Instead, a viral French guy and a random doctor from NY got the US president to rave about a single drug which received the lion's share of all funding

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Nov 2020
      Replying to @GidMK @serraotweets

      There were dozens, if not hundreds, of potential drugs with similarly good rationales, but most of those are relegated to tiny ineffectual trials because HCQ got all the attention

      5:13 PM - 24 Nov 2020
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        2. John Serrao‏ @serraotweets 24 Nov 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          Your logic is circular: if you pre-select which therapies should get attention before studying them, you'd give more reason to doctors to keep trying them (since they never get disproven). Now, why it got so hyped, you'll have to raise that with @realDonaldTrump

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Nov 2020
          Replying to @serraotweets @realDonaldTrump

          My point is that we should've given equal weighting to every treatment, not selected one because it was popular (which is what happened with HCQ) and ignored all the rest

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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