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Some further info:
Pudding Mittens wrote:.
1. The French infectious disease researcher who did the initial small-scale hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin tests that showed a 100% cure rate with those 2 drugs combined has now completed a larger study. Details:
Preprint just released, will be published over the weekend.
Again no control group (likely again due to time pressure).
80 patients, all hospitalized with COVID-19.
79 of the 80 survived, a result considered quite remarkable.
Within 8 days, 93% of the patients had no detectable virus in their bodies.
Results fit with anecdotal cure reports coming in from doctors and patients in the field.
Better studies are underway now.
The 1 person who didn't survive was over 86 years old and was way "too far gone" by the time the study started, with "irreversible" damage.
That means 79 out of 79 "save-able" patients were saved.
A doctor Smith who runs a NY infectious disease group said his group is giving hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to all suitable COVID-19 patients, currently 53 patients, and of the ones who required intubation (I believe it was 10 of them), it was ALWAYS before Day 3 of the treatment. ZERO patients needed it after Day 3, which he said is remarkable.
Dr. Smith also said that of all the doctors in his organization, when asked their opinions about hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin based on what they were seeing administering it to COVID-19 patients, one said he was undecided, but the all the others said they strongly believed it was helping a lot.
I have no further info, but I hope Dr. Smith is going to publish this somewhere.
A doctor whose name begins with Z, but but I can't remember the full name, indicated that he treated 669 COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin and only 5 required hospitalization and only 2 were intubated, which is again considered a remarkable result.
Again I have no further info, but again I hope Dr. Z is going to publish this somewhere.
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