I agree: Most of these "studies" with N = 26 or some ridiculously low number are not really studies at all. They are just anecdotes. They might suggest something useful to study, but that's it. Most doctors are not scientists.
That large random double blind study of hydroxychloroquine as prophylactic should be very interesting. We need one of those for remdesivir as well. What is a bit of a scam is that the VA study came out and soured everybody off hydroxychloroquine, even though the study was garbage. And the fact that most of the team advising the President on the best Covid-19 treatment is working for Gilead. Talk about conflict of interest!
But remdesivir itself is not the scam. It may work just fine. Very noble of Gilead to forego some profits.
I see the FDA did modify their warnings on hydroxychloroquine in 2017. It would have been nice if they said how common those cardiac events were. It would also be interesting to see the same sort of information about remdesivir, but I don't think that exists yet without a large number of patients taking it. All I see so far is studies that seemed to work a bit, studies that failed, and studies that had to be halted because too many people died.
But that was probably because doctors used it just for their sickest patients which is useless.
