It's important to understand the opposing side's position. Consequently, I have tried to wrap my head around the HCQ-skeptic position. Here is what it seems to be.
1. Primary care providers typically have problems with followup. They may not see negative outcomes. Physicians whose patients are in hospitals have a better opportunity to…
It's important to understand the opposing side's position. Consequently, I have tried to wrap my head around the HCQ-skeptic position. Here is what it seems to be.
1. Primary care providers typically have problems with followup. They may not see negative outcomes. Physicians whose patients are in hospitals have a better opportunity to see negative outcomes (hospitalization, death, chronic morbidity caused by covid).
2. Mild covid is difficult to diagnose because of viral respiratory disease confounders which have similar symptoms (flu, syncitial virus, etc.); PCR shows exposure, not necessarily active disease; do PCPs really do lung scans or lab work to nail down the diagnosis; hence, what are they actually treating with HCQ???
3. I have tried HCQ on my (hospitalized) patients and it doesn't work. They still died. [No, I am not a physician. I am imagining what a physician HCQ-skeptic would find compelling.]
4. There is no compelling RCT proof that HCQ works anywhere. [There is controversy here, of course.]
5. HCQ was pushed because of politics. [More like the skeptical position was political in nature, but this is what some HCQ skeptics _feel_.]
Have I missed anything in the HCQ-skeptic position? Please enlighten me.
It's important to understand the opposing side's position. Consequently, I have tried to wrap my head around the HCQ-skeptic position. Here is what it seems to be.
1. Primary care providers typically have problems with followup. They may not see negative outcomes. Physicians whose patients are in hospitals have a better opportunity to see negative outcomes (hospitalization, death, chronic morbidity caused by covid).
2. Mild covid is difficult to diagnose because of viral respiratory disease confounders which have similar symptoms (flu, syncitial virus, etc.); PCR shows exposure, not necessarily active disease; do PCPs really do lung scans or lab work to nail down the diagnosis; hence, what are they actually treating with HCQ???
3. I have tried HCQ on my (hospitalized) patients and it doesn't work. They still died. [No, I am not a physician. I am imagining what a physician HCQ-skeptic would find compelling.]
4. There is no compelling RCT proof that HCQ works anywhere. [There is controversy here, of course.]
5. HCQ was pushed because of politics. [More like the skeptical position was political in nature, but this is what some HCQ skeptics _feel_.]
Have I missed anything in the HCQ-skeptic position? Please enlighten me.