The doctor I know in Seattle was in one of the HCQ studies. He said he didn't think it did much, but some of the nurses thought it was a miracle drug. Point is the more emotionally involved you are, and you see the patient seem to miraculously get better the day they take something - you're going to believe in it. Which is exactly why you need placebos and double-blind studies.
These non-RCT HCQ studies seem to have taken patients who were probably going to get better anyway, and purposely excluded the really sick patients - at least the ones I've dived into.
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