>>11949567Have you ever been in a STEM graduate program? Chinese exchange students make up the bulk of the paying student body. Top faculty have also been known double dip, lying to the US govt to receive NSF money while also taking payouts from the CCP.
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/01/29/harvard-professor-charged-connection-chinese-fundingMore recently, a variety of Chinese PLA spies worked their way into US research institutions, more than likely a scheme to steal intellectual property.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/researchers-charged-visa-fraud-after-lying-about-their-work-china-s-people-s-liberation-armyIf you've actually talked to faculty, they seem to be more concerned with keeping their worker bees in the lab than the threat of just handing out visas like candy to anyone the PRC is willing to send over.
>>11949580It certainly isn't a silver bullet, and I never meant to suggest it was, though I admit I implicitly as a result of the clickbait OP. I'm just saying it is insufficiently understood to make sweeping claims about its efficacy and the reason why that is laregely because of an earlier, retracted study suggesting it was harmful to prescribe it. However, this particular study suggests that it reduces mortality by half.
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8/fulltextI am aware of a few double-blinds of a similar size claiming no effect. However, the claim in this one is that the timeframe in which HCQ was administered is critical, and with such dramatic results it's hard to throw it into the "statistical blip" bin.
