Also if you read to the last paragraph of the story:
One weakness of the trial, he added, is that because testing was not
widely available during the time of the trial, their analysis used a
combination of lab-confirmed positive covid-19 tests and symptoms to
count someone as infected.
So "infected and asymptomatic" was not distinguished from "not infected"
Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes:
> As I hope you are aware, it is not possible in a scientific experiment to
> confirm the null hypothesis. So the conclusion is unwarranted.
>
> Greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Strasfogel via Mercedes
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2020 12:16 PM
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> Cc: Andrew Strasfogel
> Subject: [MBZ] OT: Hydroxychloroquine randomized clinical trial study
>
> "Hydroxychloroquine did not prevent healthy people exposed to covid-19 from
> getting the disease caused by the coronavirus, according to a study being
> published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine."
>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/03/hydroxychloroquine-clinical-trial-results/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJjb29raWVuYW1lIjoid3BfY3J0aWQiLCJpc3MiOiJDYXJ0YSIsImNvb2tpZXZhbHVlIjoiNTk2YjA3NGQ5YmJjMGY0MDNmODlmMmYwIiwidGFnIjoid3BfbmV3c19hbGVydF9yZXZlcmUiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vaGVhbHRoLzIwMjAvMDYvMDMvaHlkcm94eWNobG9yb3F1aW5lLWNsaW5pY2FsLXRyaWFsLXJlc3VsdHMvP3dwbWs9MSZ3cGlzcmM9YWxfbmV3c19fYWxlcnQtaHNlLS1hbGVydC1uYXRpb25hbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPWFsZXJ0JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPXdwX25ld3NfYWxlcnRfcmV2ZXJlIn0.hWnXUghpIAUUHog9UY30B_6mLEMoftX2aNv-84_xfBE&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert&wpisrc=al_news__alert-hse--alert-national&wpmk=1
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