I've been saying vitamin d studies are correlational the whole time. It's the same with mask studies. You either are for both of them or for neither of them.
Illogical garbage.
It's even illogical garbage by your own position, because you are proposing we chow down on industrial quantities of vitamin D as a precaution, but are adamant that masks are frequently a worthless precaution. That just how shit and inconsistent your reasoning is.
What!? You're going to say that young people are going to the hospital on average 1 day after 1st symptoms? This is America, that is definitely not happening here.
I'm not, the paper is. Athough you might be well advised to check out what they mean by young.
So no doctor in a hospital can administer a drug that's been administered over 3 billion times? Sounds more like doctors were told not to administer it.
Yes, medicine is about teamwork. If the medical and other healthcare professionals in a hospital have determined that a treatment is not warranted, they might refuse it.
Take a pharmacist. A clinical pharmacist should know at least as much about drugs as a medical doctor does. If a clinical pharmacist receives a prescription from a doctor that he has good reason to believe is not in the best interest of the patient, he should not hand out that prescription. And this is the way many prescribing errors are caught: in fact some estimates are that about a quarter of hospital prescriptions written by medical doctors are wrong, in either dose or even the wrong drug.
No, I looked at the meta-analyses you posted...
But here's the problem: you're completely incompetent. You're like a caveman given a computer who insists it was created by a god because he poked it a few times with a stone spear. And then screaming until his face is purple that it definitely was created by a god, even after being informed it's just the product of 3000 years of technological development including a precis of the last 3000 years of technological development.
Nobody is saying that HCQ will lower infections so stop providing studies looking at that. You keep moving the goalposts, and then claim I'm lying. I linked to my post about HCQ from over a year back and my claim was no different then than it is now.
LMAO, the studies have so little to do with HCQ that HCQ isn't even in the title of the study. And I'm the completely ignorant one... just wow. NOBODY CLAIMED HCQ IS AN ANTIVIRAL, the studies literally prove it's not an antiviral.
Oh my god. You are just so incredibly ignorant and incompetent.
These studies are looking in part or full at post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), which is what you mean by "early treatment". The concept here is to prevent the development of the disease to a more serious stage by reducing the infection, and it is about antiviral activity. After all, the more virus, the worse the symptoms tend to be. So you tout the mechanism of HCQ as a negative immunomodulator (immunosuppressant) - at least as long as zinc's not involved in which case you de facto claim it's an anviral, but anyway. To administer an immunosuppressant drug at an early stage of infection is to impair the body's ability to combat infection, so the infection gets worse, and there will be more severe symptoms. An immunosuppressant (like a corticosteroid) should be administered where the body's immune response becomes too strong and becomes the key danger. So the rationale is therefore to either give HCQ early as an antiviral to reduce infection (plus zinc, if you're into that line of thinking), or later during severe symptoms as an immunomodulator to combat cytokine storm.
Hence the utter dumb as fuck bullshit you are filling this thread with, where you claim that HCQ is not an antiviral but an immunosuppressant, and yet propose that it is used when an antiviral could be effective but an immunosuppressant would make things worse, and that it is no use in late treatment when an immunosuppressant absolutely is called for.
Actually, the authors of these papers know what they are doing and talking about - even most of the ones who are putting out pretty dodgy stuff (e.g. Zelenko). They are correctly examining the antiviral properties of HCQ for prevention of infection (pre-exposure prophylaxis; PrEP) and "early" treatment (post-exposure prophylaxis; PEP), but immunosuppression for late treatment.
Your complaints are simply the complaints of a total ignoramus who has got everything wrong and is screaming impotently and confusedly at the world for not conforming to his delusions. The reason you have dug yourself into this hopeless and ridiculous muddle is your failure to properly understand anything in the first place, coupled with a pathological obstinacy and refusal to admit error plus a continuing inability to correctly interpret any science put in front of you.