If 100 patients are crashing are given Hydroxychloroquine and 80 survive that is your approximate effective rate.
If more effective medicines are developed, Great, use them when wide available.
Simple isn’t it. You don’t need to do a 10 year study to figure this out and we don’t have the time anyway.
Not only are people dying but the economy needs a ventilator too.
So much this.
After 6 days, of those who recieved no hydroxychloroquine, about 85% of those original COVID19 patients still had the virus (reading from the graph in the study). After 6 days 30% of the patients who received hydroxychloroquine still had the virus, and the slope of the graph is down towards later days. The drug is routinely given for months at a time for other ailments in similar doses.