This is mostly fiction, but interesting nonetheless. The article portrays Dr. Carlos Chaccour as the hero who established that the Surgisphere Patel et als' Usefulness of Usefulness of Ivermectin in COVID-19 Illness paper (which you can read here) is based on bogus data. Here is an example of allegedly bogus data from the article:
Of 1,970 patients, 52 had received ivermectin, three of them in Africa. The data alarmed Carlos. He had reviewed the WHO global contagion report the day before, and by March 1 there were not even three patients infected in Africa. There was one in Algeria and one in Nigeria.
Wow: Patel says 3, Chaccour only knows of 2. That is proof positive that the Patel paper is fraudulent.
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Is Chaccour supposed to be omniscient? He knows everything that happens in Africa, like God? Or is it possible that a 3rd case had happened and was not yet reported to wherever Chaccour gets his information about Africa?
Surgisphere has a real-time database of hospital records, meaning the day someone is admitted to any of their participating hospitals with a covid-19 diagnosis, they know about it that day. So obviously there's a high likelihood that Surgisphere have data that other sources do not have because Surgisphere gets it sooner.
Among the inaccuracies:
1) The paper was never found to be fraudulent, nor were the Surgisphere articles that appeared in the BMJ and Lancet with much the same authors. The only problem was the database was a black block, private property, and the owner (one of the authors) would not let it be audited.
2) Chaccour didn't find the Africa discrepancy -- I'm pretty sure. The Lancet paper dumping on HCQ invited the rabid attention of HCQ fans who set about scavenging it for discrepancies -- because, you know, their President was a fan. I saw tweets in that crowd citing the alleged Africa discrepancy soon after the Lancet article was published. Looking at Chaccour's twitter time line back to before the original Patel Usefulness... article in early April, I found no mentions of Patel, Usefulness..., Surgisphere, fraud.
[-] TrumpLyftAlles | 1 points | Jul 23 2020 19:56:59
This is mostly fiction, but interesting nonetheless. The article portrays Dr. Carlos Chaccour as the hero who established that the Surgisphere Patel et als' Usefulness of Usefulness of Ivermectin in COVID-19 Illness paper (which you can read here) is based on bogus data. Here is an example of allegedly bogus data from the article:
Of 1,970 patients, 52 had received ivermectin, three of them in Africa. The data alarmed Carlos. He had reviewed the WHO global contagion report the day before, and by March 1 there were not even three patients infected in Africa. There was one in Algeria and one in Nigeria.
Wow: Patel says 3, Chaccour only knows of 2. That is proof positive that the Patel paper is fraudulent.
/s
Is Chaccour supposed to be omniscient? He knows everything that happens in Africa, like God? Or is it possible that a 3rd case had happened and was not yet reported to wherever Chaccour gets his information about Africa?
Surgisphere has a real-time database of hospital records, meaning the day someone is admitted to any of their participating hospitals with a covid-19 diagnosis, they know about it that day. So obviously there's a high likelihood that Surgisphere have data that other sources do not have because Surgisphere gets it sooner.
Among the inaccuracies:
1) The paper was never found to be fraudulent, nor were the Surgisphere articles that appeared in the BMJ and Lancet with much the same authors. The only problem was the database was a black block, private property, and the owner (one of the authors) would not let it be audited.
2) Chaccour didn't find the Africa discrepancy -- I'm pretty sure. The Lancet paper dumping on HCQ invited the rabid attention of HCQ fans who set about scavenging it for discrepancies -- because, you know, their President was a fan. I saw tweets in that crowd citing the alleged Africa discrepancy soon after the Lancet article was published. Looking at Chaccour's twitter time line back to before the original Patel Usefulness... article in early April, I found no mentions of Patel, Usefulness..., Surgisphere, fraud.
Chill TLA. I get too defensive.
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