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Small trial finds hydroxychloroquine is not effective for treating coronavirus (yahoo.com)
1 point by post_below on April 5, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


This article's a step above garbage. Half of the 11 patients had cancer; another had AIDS and several more had diabetes. Even more importantly, there's no information about how long patients were suspected to be sick before starting hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin. Anti-coronavirus medications don't regrow lungs after they've been already been damaged by coronavirus.

The paper could've been very useful with a paragraph per patient of case history, but as-is it's exceptionally mediocre.




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