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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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Things were so messy in the spring, but yeah, you're right in hindsight.We got off so lucky with the death rate as low as it is. Imagine all of this with a 10-20% fatality rate...the whole thing might have unraveled.
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