I know. And your VA example was an outright fraud study. As were lots of these others. One will print something - your other references use the same material. Sure looks impressive to a dumbass - but it's pretty much the same crap from the same people.
You're quoting News Agencies? CNN? NY Times? They put out such massive levels of boulschitt on a daily basis - they even resort to fabrication!
MEANWHILE - doctors that are not PRACTICING MEDICINE - but HEALING PATIENTS - use it with almost 100% success. Safer than Ibuprofen.
And these studies? You pay me for a study (someone has to pay) - and tell me what you're really looking for - you'll get those results - AND it will be done very stringently, scientifically, and you'll get supporting data.
Know how pharmaceutical companies do it? They'll fund dozens of studies of their one product - and eventually one will give good results - they toss the other - and they're never mentioned. Of course they can afford it, too. Same guys that pay physicians to prescribe THEIR latest crap.
You could load up a syringe, inject me with a combination of CV-19, Polio virus, West Nile Virus, SARS, and MERS - and I'll not even cough. Much less get a fever. No symptoms whatsoever - and I mean load that syringe UP!
You keep following directions. Get in the lines they tell you to. Wear a mask that doen't do anything - absolutely nothing. Don't do what they direct you to not do. Don't go places they tell you not to visit.
You should fear what they tell you to fear.
And soon - they just had a live field test to verify how gullible and compliable the US public is.
Everyone fell for it. Put out a scare, tell everyone "this is what's best for everyone," "If not for yourself - do it for others." That one is really creative and apparently effective.
Falsified numbers, selected number emphasis - and there you go. Wherever they'll direct you.