Questions have been raised on the Lancet HCQ study over dataset and methodology. Another journal has issued similar concern over a study that used same data.
A group of about 120 researchers pointed out inconsistencies in the study and called on the authors and The Lancet to reveal more details of their analysis.
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While it is absolutely correct that every possible approach needs to be tried to find a cure / a vaccine to prevent the Coronavirus from infecting more people, what happened with the Lancet and a bunch of crooked “experts” interested in both promoting a particular ideology and a hatred of certain politicians and in grabbing their fifteen minutes deserves to be investigated and prosecuted. Desai, Mehra and co withdrew their “study” after the Lancet raised concerns, but in the meantime, two experts’ positions on HCQ (while research on other medications continues) completely endorses the ICMR’s stand. Prof Didier Raoult at the Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes said on his Twitter page that the difference between the Surgisphere and ICJMR papers was that the ICJMR paper had actual data to back it. Simultaneously, Dr Laura Kragie of Biomedworks LLC in Boston MA posted on her LinkedIn page: Quote [NEJM and The Lancet are destroying any credibility / trust in academic medicine. Extremely irresponsible to publish and support this propaganda because you have overt political biases. When vaccines become available, no one will ever trust the data from them. Tragedy.] End Quote. The context of her post is particularly relevant because The Lancet had previously published yet another devious paper linking vaccines to autism before retracting it as well.
That said, right from the beginning, the ICMR has proven to be a sterling body and it deserves the same respect in India that it gets from peer bodies in other parts of the world. The ridiculous initial fraud pushed by a New York based NRI whom some Indian journalists swooned over since he was a “Princeton grad” (never mind that Princeton is the only Ivy that does not have a School of Medicine) and this new Surgisphere tamasha, again by a bunch of fly by night NRIs with a firm with five employees trying to discredit a venerable Indian body on the basis of a concocted fraud, deserves to be slammed. When will Indian “inte;;ectuals” become proud of hard working Indians’ earned expertise and stop slobbering over crooks and liars? Let us please respect our own experts and give their experience and earned knowledge the respect that it deserves.
There is a growing suspicion on WHO’s management getting succumbed to pressure groups that have stockpiled medicines and vaccines without any conclusive evidence to show the efficacy of these drugs in curing Covid-19 virus. There seems many organized efforts to disqualify inexpensive drugs which are in use for decades to promote very expensive so called alternate safe Wonder drugs. This is a billion trillion dollar business. We are living in a surrealistic world taken for granted by such selfish groups to be fooled.
Our Babus and Netas are still awed by bolnd hair and fair skin.Depending on FDA’s approval as basis in an emergency is alright. But it betrays colonial hangover as Kiran Muzumdar put it. It is good that ICMR stood its ground inspite of high velocity Lancet report which was swallowed by the whole world hook, slinker and rod.
As the world struggles for more than five months now, with neither a cure nor a vaccine, it is only natural that whatever has a faint chance of success is checked out. For a patient who is sinking, there would be a greater willingness to take a chance with a drug that has dangerous side effects. These questions are best left to the medical team treating a patient, or to an institution like WHO. The trouble with HCQ arose because President Trump is looking for a magic, instant solution to his Covid woes. Great pity he has taken the US out of WHO and is practically not speaking to Dr Fauci.
Strange you blame Trump ! He recommended a drug, he did not downplay any. But then what happened ? Everyone rushed in to condemn this drug , publishing FAKE data to do so , just so that Trump could be maligned. No one gave a damn for the truth !! People who have no connection with the medical profession, eg journalists, jumped into the fray ! Meanwhile, a drug safely used for decades for other indications, which actually works as a prophylaxis, was dumped & labelled ‘dangerous’ !! What Trump does or does not should NOT have mattered at all. He is NOT a doctor, he has never prescribed any drug in his entire life.But no, it has to matter to lunatic liberals hellbent on their revolution even if it means people die ! And there is this funny matter of the other drug, Remdesivir from Gilead . Who is set to gain if a cheap drug like HCQS is dumped, who makes the money ?!! All hail Soros !
No, it is international conspiracy to demean this drug, so that India’s lead in this drug can be thwarted. Pharma companies/ vaccine manufactureres may made billions out of this misery.
This drug is with us for roughly 80 years and given in proper dosage did not cause heart problems. Conspiracy is obvious.
While it is absolutely correct that every possible approach needs to be tried to find a cure / a vaccine to prevent the Coronavirus from infecting more people, what happened with the Lancet and a bunch of crooked “experts” interested in both promoting a particular ideology and a hatred of certain politicians and in grabbing their fifteen minutes deserves to be investigated and prosecuted. Desai, Mehra and co withdrew their “study” after the Lancet raised concerns, but in the meantime, two experts’ positions on HCQ (while research on other medications continues) completely endorses the ICMR’s stand. Prof Didier Raoult at the Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes said on his Twitter page that the difference between the Surgisphere and ICJMR papers was that the ICJMR paper had actual data to back it. Simultaneously, Dr Laura Kragie of Biomedworks LLC in Boston MA posted on her LinkedIn page: Quote [NEJM and The Lancet are destroying any credibility / trust in academic medicine. Extremely irresponsible to publish and support this propaganda because you have overt political biases. When vaccines become available, no one will ever trust the data from them. Tragedy.] End Quote. The context of her post is particularly relevant because The Lancet had previously published yet another devious paper linking vaccines to autism before retracting it as well.
That said, right from the beginning, the ICMR has proven to be a sterling body and it deserves the same respect in India that it gets from peer bodies in other parts of the world. The ridiculous initial fraud pushed by a New York based NRI whom some Indian journalists swooned over since he was a “Princeton grad” (never mind that Princeton is the only Ivy that does not have a School of Medicine) and this new Surgisphere tamasha, again by a bunch of fly by night NRIs with a firm with five employees trying to discredit a venerable Indian body on the basis of a concocted fraud, deserves to be slammed. When will Indian “inte;;ectuals” become proud of hard working Indians’ earned expertise and stop slobbering over crooks and liars? Let us please respect our own experts and give their experience and earned knowledge the respect that it deserves.
There is a growing suspicion on WHO’s management getting succumbed to pressure groups that have stockpiled medicines and vaccines without any conclusive evidence to show the efficacy of these drugs in curing Covid-19 virus. There seems many organized efforts to disqualify inexpensive drugs which are in use for decades to promote very expensive so called alternate safe Wonder drugs. This is a billion trillion dollar business. We are living in a surrealistic world taken for granted by such selfish groups to be fooled.
Our Babus and Netas are still awed by bolnd hair and fair skin.Depending on FDA’s approval as basis in an emergency is alright. But it betrays colonial hangover as Kiran Muzumdar put it. It is good that ICMR stood its ground inspite of high velocity Lancet report which was swallowed by the whole world hook, slinker and rod.
As the world struggles for more than five months now, with neither a cure nor a vaccine, it is only natural that whatever has a faint chance of success is checked out. For a patient who is sinking, there would be a greater willingness to take a chance with a drug that has dangerous side effects. These questions are best left to the medical team treating a patient, or to an institution like WHO. The trouble with HCQ arose because President Trump is looking for a magic, instant solution to his Covid woes. Great pity he has taken the US out of WHO and is practically not speaking to Dr Fauci.
Strange you blame Trump ! He recommended a drug, he did not downplay any. But then what happened ? Everyone rushed in to condemn this drug , publishing FAKE data to do so , just so that Trump could be maligned. No one gave a damn for the truth !! People who have no connection with the medical profession, eg journalists, jumped into the fray ! Meanwhile, a drug safely used for decades for other indications, which actually works as a prophylaxis, was dumped & labelled ‘dangerous’ !! What Trump does or does not should NOT have mattered at all. He is NOT a doctor, he has never prescribed any drug in his entire life.But no, it has to matter to lunatic liberals hellbent on their revolution even if it means people die ! And there is this funny matter of the other drug, Remdesivir from Gilead . Who is set to gain if a cheap drug like HCQS is dumped, who makes the money ?!! All hail Soros !
No, it is international conspiracy to demean this drug, so that India’s lead in this drug can be thwarted. Pharma companies/ vaccine manufactureres may made billions out of this misery.
This drug is with us for roughly 80 years and given in proper dosage did not cause heart problems. Conspiracy is obvious.