Are they having a shortage of sick people to test on?
Get on with it!
#SlowingTheResponse
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[[The government remains cautious, however, because Pr Raoult’s results were obtained on 24 patients only, without placebo.]]
there are now several much larger studies done- not clinical studies- but studies with real live folks that are proving almost 100% effective- There’s no need to prevent folks from getting this anymore- The drug has proven very safe for decades now- as has the antibiotic it is given with
“Pr Raoult’s results were obtained on 24 patients only, without placebo...”
More recent results from his institute are here:
https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/covid-19/
1003 treated
1 death (an old man who was already very ill when treatment began)
The 24 patient study has since been supplemented with an ADDITIONAL 80 patient study by Dr. Raoult with practically similar results.
Prof. Didier Raoult and his team published results of their new additional study to confirm the previous one.
The study was supported by the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) Méditerranée Infection. Unlike the previous small study trial, the new observation study has a larger sample size of 80 COVID-19 patients. The objective of the study was to find an effective treatment to cure COVID-19 patients and to decrease the virus carriage duration.
In 80 in-patients receiving a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, the team found a clinical improvement in all but one 86 year-old patient who died, and one 74-year old patient still in intensive care unit. The team also found that, by administering hydroxychloroquine combined with azithromycin, they were able to observe an improvement in all cases, except in one patient who arrived with an advanced form, who was over the age of 86, and in whom the evolution was irreversible.
See report here: