There was a slightly older study, that did a meta analysis and predicted additional mortality of 11% from HCQ.
The more recent study took that excess mortality rate and multiplied it by deaths of people who were treated with HCQ in hospital to get 17k.
Not sure why the calculation took so long, or why they use the same .11 odds ratio, when the overall mortality rate in countries varied between 4.5% - 30% for hospitalized covid patients exposed to HCQ
There was a slightly older study, that did a meta analysis and predicted additional mortality of 11% from HCQ.
The more recent study took that excess mortality rate and multiplied it by deaths of people who were treated with HCQ in hospital to get 17k.
Not sure why the calculation took so long, or why they use the same .11 odds ratio, when the overall mortality rate in countries varied between 4.5% - 30% for hospitalized covid patients exposed to HCQ