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by javagram 1719 days ago
> Because of the way they are constructed, Randomized Control Trials will never show any benefit for any antiviral against COVID-19. Not Remdesivir, not Kaletra, not HCQ, and not Ivermectin. The reason for this is simple; for the patients that they have recruited for these studies, such as Oxford’s ludicrous RECOVERY study, the intervention is too late to have any positive effect.

This claim is egregiously false itself. Several RCTs have been done for early exposure to covid or for prophylaxis.

Just out of memory I remember studies for HCQ prophylaxis (doesn’t work), remdesivir prophylaxis (does work), and monoclonal antibody prophylaxis (does work).

The lies created by anti vaccine activists are already spread widely and apparently convinced you these studies which happened didn’t happen.

https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/22/remdesivir-reduces-covid...

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/08/regen-co...

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2016638