Dr. Risch correctly points out every... EVERY...RCT study showing hydroxychloroquine to be ineffective was done incorrectly. He also points out every... EVERY... credible observational study using hydroxychloroquine correctly (combined with zinc and azithromycin and given within five days of symptom onset) shows incredible effectiveness.
But forget Risch for a second. How about Dr. Zev Zekenko, who treated his patients with HCQ+ and only had something like two deaths out of hundreds of patients, far fewer than what was observed? Or how about Dr. George Fareed, former professor of medicine at Harvard and UCLA, who treated over 700 patients with this and had ZERO deaths?
(Of course, when I asked Ty how this was possible, he dummied up.)
No Chris, the Great Fauchino is no hero, letting hundreds of thousands of people die because he wrongly said HCQ+ didn't work. Had he said yes, it did, lives would have been saved. But because his word and flawed personal medical philosophy of saying observational trials are anecdotal and not valid (a philosophy that the rest of the medical research community does NOT share) were considered gospel, medical practices everywhere banned their doctors from using this treatment.
I don't think he's evil like a lot of my right-wing friends think. But his incompetence cost us badly.