Friday May 22, study published in British medical journal The Lancet, alerting to heart risks for Covid-19 patients, who are given a hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine treatment. As a precaution, the Minister of Health Olivier Veran seized the following day, the High Council of Public Health, which now recommends not "do not use hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of Covid-19" outside of clinical trials. The professor Didier Raoult is now under fire from many critics. Since the beginning of the epidemic, he defends the effectiveness of his treatment based on hydroxychloroquine to treat patients with Covid-19. He agreed to answer David Pujadas' questions in a long interview on LCI, broadcast on Tuesday, May 26, to defend his method.
Didier Raoult provokes the Minister of Health Olivier Véran
With David Pujadas, the director of IHU Méditerannée infection de Marseille questions the results obtained in the study, which he opposes to his concrete work "with 4000 patients". The journalist questions him about his choice, not to have realized "randomized study with a control group and a placebo control", who questions "people". Professor Didier Raoult replied confidently: "Think again, people they think like me. You think they think like you, but you are wrong. " David Pujadas responds that the "people are divided". " Do you want to do a survey between you and me? (…) Want to poll Veran and me to see who to believe? Do you want to see what credibility is? " then provocatively launched Didier Raoult. "In Marseille, I'm sure you have a record rate", David Pujadas replies, while the doctor encourages him to "do surveys" in all of France.
In a video published on the Youtube account of the IHU Mediterranean on May 25, Didier Raoult already severely tackled the study, which he describes as a "messy study done with big data".
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