Dr Fauci used a now debunked study to say that hydroxychloroquine does not save lives and should not be used. But remember, since this whole thing began, Fauci has yet to be right about anything. He is also the one that said Trump rallies cause the spread of the virus but protests do not. First of all, Trump supporters bathe regularly.
Experts who examined the evidence from the study mentioned by Fauci found that the results proved exactly the opposite of what Dr Doolittle claimed. Fauci insists that the only research that he considers credible, is one that uses the real drug and also uses a placebo. But, most of the studies of hydroxychloroquine are done actually treating patients in the hospital, where they are not permitted to hand out placebos.
Fauci claims there is no study that uses a placebo that shows that hydroxychloroquine is effective against coronavirus. In fact on Friday night esteemed Dr. Ramin Oskoui blasted Dr. Fauci for lying by omission. Fauci has neither been honest or consistent on the information he gives out on the disease and hydroxychloroquine.
The website Covexit.com reported:
Despite over 1,000 clinical trials seeking a cure for COVID-19, there has been little effort to test early hydroxychloroquine-based treatments for COVID-19. Many trials are in hospital settings, i.e. beyond the approx. 5 day window for early treatment to be effective.
In addition, from an ethical viewpoint, best practices for clinical trials prevent from using placebos when a treatment is known to work. The use of placebos, which is a key for randomized clinical trials, is incompatible with both the Hippocratic Oath and the internationally approved ethical principles for clinical trials, embedded in the Helsinki Declaration.
The study by McGill and the University of Minnesota was the first randomized controlled trial testing hydroxychloroquine in a non-hospital setting, and was therefore much awaited by the research community and decision makers from all over the world.