I do not believe the Veterans Administration (VA) hydroxychloroquine study which seems to suggest that they drug increases the risk of death in Covid-19 patients.

They only reported on 70 deaths through April 11, 2020, but a graph on Stars & Stripes website shows that there were roughly 210 people who had died of this date.

It appears that the VA study left out two-thirds of the data.

States that have stay-at-home lockdown orders do not have fewer cases of Covid-19 per million people and do not have fewer deaths from Covid-19 per million people than states that used only social distancing according to political scientist Wilfred Reilly.

“the social-distancing states… [plus South Carolina] experienced 663 fewer cases per million and 42 fewer deaths per million on average than the lockdown states [minus New York],” notes Reilly.

Senator Dr. Scott Jensen said that he received a document from the Minnesota Department of Health coaching him on how to fill out death certificates, listing Covid-19 as the cause of death if there was any suspicion that it might be involved.

Covid-19 is 50-85 times less fatal than previously thought based on a study done by Dr. John Ioannidis from Stanford University which tested people in Santa Clara county, California for antibodies to the virus, showing that they had already been infected.

Here are video highlights from an interview that Del Bigtree of The Highwire did with biostatistician and epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski, PhD, DSc, who was Head of Rockefeller University’s Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design, about whether social distancing will reduce the number of deaths from coronavirus, Covid-19.

Knut Wittkowski says, no, social distancing will not reduce the number of deaths from Covid-19, and will probably increase the number of people who will die from the virus.

He says there is no evidence anywhere in the world that this is true because the number of deaths had already peaked before social distancing was instituted.

Data suggesting that hydroxychloroquine may be effective for preventing Covid-19 comes from the low number of cases in Africa where they use these drugs to prevent malaria according to some health officials.