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Significant improvement in recovery rate using hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin
This study used Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19. it says that the mean time of viral shedding in patients suffering from COVID19 in China was 20 days while this combination is able to clear viral is 6 days.
At day 6 post-inclusion, 100% of patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin combination were virologicaly cured comparing with 57.1% in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine only, and 12.5% in the control group"
This chart is taken from the same paper
Gautret's study is being heavily criticized worldwide for using a very small sample and administering other treatments alongside hydroxycloroquine; which obviously makes it hard to determine what really had the positive effect. There are other, more rigorous studies running right now, including one by the USA CDC with ~1100 patients in NYC.