Dumb Ass Trump and Hydroxychloroquine

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https://theskepticalgambler.blogspot...wo-things.html


Statistical Note: If fatality rates are higher for Latinos and Blacks versus whites, by factors of five times to seven times, then I suppose to make a proper comparison of early HCQ use, one would have to make sure that the HCQ users mirrored the ethnicity makeup of the population in mind. In other words, if all of the people taking the HCQ are white, one would expect a remarkably lower fatality rate. But that's obvious, right?

I feel obligated to correct your misinformation propoganda campaign comrade Red, I'm sure you can appreciate that as you've stated you feel the same obligation. You are doing people a dangerous disservice, if they were to take your comment at face value then it would imply for white people could assume it's equivalent to the flu or less, which I previously thought wasn't something you believed. Data shows that race has a correlation but isn't causal when adjusted for other factors. But that should be obvious, right? Thinking blacks and latinos are at more risk because of their race sounds like some sort of white supremacist bullshit.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-pers...ospital-deaths

"After adjusting for sociodemographic factors and underlying conditions, black COVID-19 patients were no more likely than white patients to die of any cause in hospitals, a retrospective study published today in JAMA Network Open has found."

"After adjusting for age, sex, insurance, underlying conditions, neighborhood deprivation, and site of care, the risk of death was not significantly different between blacks and whites (hazard ratio [HR], 0.93; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.80 to 1.09)."

"Compared with whites, blacks had higher rates of asthma (8.8% vs 4.7%), cancer (3.6% vs 3.2%), chronic kidney disease (20.5% vs 12.9%), congestive heart failure (12.5% vs 10.8%), diabetes (32.0% vs 23%), high blood pressure (30.3% vs 25.0%), obesity (32.2% vs 18.2%), and organ transplantation (0.5% vs 0.3%)."

""Taken together, these findings suggest that while Black US residents may be at higher risk of contracting COVID-19 and represent a disproportionate share of COVID-19 death, mortality for those able to access hospital care does not differ from White patients," the authors wrote."