A Study Out of Thin Air

Nice article with solid background research.

However the article has a strong connotation that WHO has permanently stopped hydroxychloroquine trials just based on this one particular study. That is wrong.

WHO recognized that the Lancet study was flawed and did not have randomized trials. They have been doing their own Solidarity Trials which they have now temporarily paused to analyze their own collected data as well as the data from this study. They plan to reach a decision as to whether to continue the trials again or not. They have NOT permanently ended hydroxychloroquine trials forever as a possible treatment for Covid-19.

Note that unlike Lancet, which has (at the time I'm writing this post) yet to answer the criticisms, the New England Journal of Medicine, which published a similar paper, raised an Expression of Concern on the data[1].

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2020822